Russ Allbery wrote: > Dan Pritts <da...@internet2.edu> writes: >> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:36:09AM -0400, Alex McKenzie wrote: > >>> perhaps something the devels should think about. If they decide to >>> continue on the way they have... well, that's their option. It's their >>> project, and they can do what they want with it. But they should at >>> least be aware that people are concerned about the current methods. > >> I tend to agree with Alex, FWIW, but I too recognize that I get what I >> pay for. > > Out of fairness want to note that the most significant component of the > problems with the OpenLDAP packages for Debian (and Ubuntu, to a somewhat > lesser degree) is that the packaging team has basically no resources.
In this case I'd prefer if a Linux distribution would not add a package at all. At least not a package which was obviously an experimental pre-release at that time. And not hacking the upstream software to work with components known to be buggy. This would save us all a lot of time. Ciao, Michael.
