>>>>> "Brad" == Brad Knowles >>>>> "Re: [Mailman-Users] Difficulties with mailman 2.1.5" >>>>> Sun, 19 Nov 2006 02:52:50 -0600
Brad> What really needs to happen is the Debian guys need to get
Brad> 2.1.9 and "Debian-ize" that codebase, and then ship that out
Brad> to all their customers. Problem is, the Debian project is
Brad> well-known for being multiple years behind the current
Brad> state-of-whatever, so $DEITY only knows when you might ever
Brad> see this kind of update -- Maybe about the same time we're
Brad> shipping Mailman3.
According to
<http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.9-2/changelog>
mailman_2.1.9-1_*.deb including a "New upstream bugfix release" was
"Debianized" on 9 Oct 2006 and mailman_2.1.9-2_*.deb including
packaging modifications was made available on 17 Oct 2006.
Local backporting of Debian packages from either the unstable or
testing archives to install in ones "stable" Debian box is well
documented and an instructive exercise for a casual user doing it the
first time. Here is "a short introduction on how to do backports
yourself"
<http://selinux.alioth.debian.org/sesarge/HOWTO-Backport.txt>. A
gentler and more complete reference can be found at
<http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/doc/maint/> where backporting is
introduced in Section 9.6.
BTW I am unaware of Debian doing anything that I would, by any stretch
of my imagination, describe as "shipping [anything] out to all their
customers". Many Debian packages are modified between Debian releases
and users that are impatient with the pace Debian releases have many
ways of pulling more recent packages from the testing or unstable
archives and using them to upgrade their installed packages between
Debian releases.
jam
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