Hi,
El Martes, 1 de Abril de 2008 a las 04:14, Bill Cole escribió:
That's a question about the competence of the people maintaining that repository. Presumably these would be the people who blessed a pre-release version of Dovecot almost 18 months ago, in a period when such versions were being released every few days *due to bugs*, and who have not updated their build at any time since. It seems to me that these are not people who should be tasked or trusted with being the gatekeepers of software deployment, as that seems to be demonstrably beyond their competence.
RedHat (and CentOS) has his own policy about releases, and more or less it is: "no update will break a working instalation". So they try to port any security patches to their running versions -and this is a lot of work, they have their own forked version of almost any package!-, but almost never add any new funcionality. This policy has one great point: it's easy to understand, and it gives few surprises. And this is great most of the times.
Pre-1.0 Dovecot is the kind of software that doesn't fit well in that policy: a lot of changes, and no standard stable version. So they chose one version -1.0rc15 in this case-, because their other option was not including dovecot. That's exactly why I'm compiling dovecot from source, but I usually like the default policy.
Aaaaaaaaaagur.
Joseba Torre. CIDIR Bizkaia.