Testing a multi-version-upgrade like that on every running environment is not trivial, whereas adding a single patch to an existing issue to the known-working version is far less likely to have catastrophic fallout.
"Stable" means "No, really, we don't think upgrading will spontaneously break anything". - Rich On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Martin Walter <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 06:05:33PM +0100, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > > Hi Alasdair, > >> If you'd like things to proceed faster, I'd like to point out that the devs >> working on OI are contributing their free time to do this. If you value OI >> then you're welcome to assist us and help get things updated faster. > > I really appreciate the great work of all you devs, but I fear I am not able > to help very much, because of lack of skill and time. > >> The stable release is about backporting critical security fixes, and this >> one sounds like the kind of thing we should look at backporting. So we will >> look into it and see what can be done. But it probably won't involve a >> version bump, more a patch to the older version. > > Would it be not easier and better to just make the newest version available? > E.g. I would much more prefer just a samba-3.6.4 package than an updated > samba-3.5.5. > > I already tried to generate samba-3.6.4, but failed wih ldap_initialize.... > > Best regards, > Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
