On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 07:09:01AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 01:19:25PM +0200, Sander Smeenk wrote: > > The same happened with one of my packages: snort. There was a /really/ > > old release in stable, because new uploads didn't make it in time. There > > were a couple of reasons why it would be good to have a new upstream > > version of the snort package installed in stable. But the Debian Policy > > forbids it. > > This is another example, that i like: who would ever use an old IDS?
And another one: Who would ever use a SpamAssassin tool which cannot catch any of the spam out there nowadays? 2.20-1woody is so old and timely obsolete that I am on my way to backport 2.55 to woody and maintain it as soon as I have some time from my new responsibilities. data -- Jesus Climent | Unix SysAdm | Helsinki, Finland | pumuki.hispalinux.es GPG: 1024D/86946D69 BB64 2339 1CAA 7064 E429 7E18 66FC 1D7F 8694 6D69 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Linux user #66350 proudly using Debian Sid & Linux 2.4.21 If you iz watching dis in da UK, you may remember me from da telly. If you iz in Belgium.... you iz living in a shit hole. --Ali G (Ali G indahouse)