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Re: Antw: Re: Log service time?



Ð ÐÑÐ, 06/09/2013 Ð 06:55 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> --On Friday, September 06, 2013 2:16 PM +0200 Ulrich Windl 
> <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > Actually I don't know which distributors are "back-porting" fixes, but
> > from my personal experience distributors don't trust the latest release
> > either (and thus keep what they have) ;-)
> 
> I would note that even the Debian openldap maintainers say not to use their 
> packages for production:
> 
> <http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/1456.html>

Look at my previous message. Personally, I think that switching
development model to something that can support few old version would be
a win for both sides. Like, adding 4th version component for
backported/redone bug fixes.

As far as I know, many software following such model, linux kernel is an
example.