because they are too lazy to lern how tu buld packages for their distribution which is at least for redhat-based distribution trivial
it is no rocket science to take the existing source package, replace the tarball and after change some lines in the SPEC-fle rebuild
on the other hand - Ubuntu Server OS (10.04) whoever installed this crap (sorry but ubuntu prdouction is a joke) knew that there wll be no upgrades because that is why LTS versions are there - you can not have both
Am 22.12.2012 03:04, schrieb Noel Butler:
Why are people shit scared of abandoning these antiquated distro versions and using the "source"
On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 08:37 +0000, Tim Smith wrote:
Thanks Ben,
I'm using an Ubuntu Server OS (10.04) and it seems that the latest package they provide is 1.2.9.
Do you know if anyone has had any success getting a Dovecot 2 package on this Ubuntu distro and how they went about it (Not comfortable compiling sources at this point!!)?