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Re: Antw: Re: Log service time?
Ð ÐÑÐ, 06/09/2013 Ð 09:31 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> --On Friday, September 06, 2013 7:05 PM +0300 ÐÐÐÐÑÐÐÐÐÐÐ
> ÐÐÑÑÐÐ <casper@meteor.dp.ua> wrote:
>
> > I'm not complaining. I'm looking for a better way of upstream ->
> > end-user.
> >
> > What I was trying to tell was: if openldap team could backport fixes
> > (without new features) to old versions - then distributors could update
> > packages not breaking their policy.
> >
> > The thing is that I see clear split to conservative anti-distro point -
> > "compile yourself" and distro-oriented "stay with bugs".
>
> I don't think you understand software versionsing:
>
> MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
>
> There is no reason for distributions not to update to a later patch level.
> "backporting" fixes inside a release makes no sense.. it is still the 2.4
> release.
The reason is that openldap's PATCH component includes new features
(that by itself introduces new bugs) rather than only FIXES to existing
features. This breaks disto's policy and this is the point.