Lionel, thanks for your response. I think I'll have to get comfortable with the status quo. I surely don't blame you for it. instead I'm grateful for the time and effort you put in.
It seems the backports.org package for 2.1.7 is going to be created upon my request. If so and I successfully upgrade on my sarge system with several active mailing lists, I'll report more on the bug or patch it in the code. Additionally, it could be reported upstream then. Vlada Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: ... > I can't say I disagree that trying to keep the latest "stable" branch > as bug-free as possible would be a laudable / desirable goal, but > that is not the current Debian procedures. The way Debian, and most > GNU/Linux distributions, works is: > > - At some point in time, a release is made. In our case, Debian 3.1 > "sarge" in the middle of 2005. > > - Nothing at all is changed in sarge, bugs there stay there, except > for security updates and really critical bugs. > > - In the meantime, a new release is being prepared, in our case etch > (which will be numbered Debian 3.2 or maybe 4.0). Non-critical / > security bugs get corrected in the development cycle of this new > release. > > See http://www.debian.org/releases/ . > > You can try to convince Debian to change its way of working, but if > you go this route, good luck. Won't be easy. (The right contact is > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > ... > I'm not saying that running a mixed stable / testing Debian is > necessarily a good idea, but if you want non-criticl/security bugs > corrected before the new release your choices currently are: > > - Run a mixed stable / testing Debian and take the packages that are > too buggy in stable from testing. > - Backport the packages from testing yourself. > - Convince someone at http://backport.org/ to do that. > - Magic > > That is suboptimal, but out of my control. Sorry for that.
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