В Птн, 06/09/2013 в 04:42 -0700, Howard Chu пишет: > Ulrich Windl wrote: > >>>> Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]> schrieb am 05.09.2013 um 22:58 in > > Nachricht <0FCBC02976FFDC0CF5D9A489@[192.168.1.22]>: > >> --On Thursday, September 05, 2013 10:58 PM +0300 Покотиленко > >> Костик <[email protected]> wrote: > > [...] > >>> OS: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS > >>> Slapd: 2.4.28-1.1ubuntu4.3 > >> > >> Ugh, ancient. > >> > >>> Backend: HDB > >> > >> Yuck. > >> > > [...] > > > > Hi guys! > > > > While I have nothing against bug-free software, I cannot read that "update > > to > > the latest version and database" any more: Is it really because the > > releases of > > the previous years that many people used were so terrible (which, by > > induction, > > means that the latest versions recommended by that time were terrible, so, > > as > > seen from tomorrow's perspective, the versions advertised today are also > > terribly full of bugs. In effect this means that there will never be a > > version > > that is not full of terrible bugs), or is it that no-one wants to care or > > take > > a look at about previous releases? Or are you just recruiting beta-testers > > for > > the current release? > > It is Project policy to only investigate issues in the current release. There > is no sense in tracing back thru old code whose bugs have already been fixed.
This means old versions are not supported and makes problems with openldap distribution packages as distributions don't update upstream versions inside distribution version. :( For Debian that means staying with bugs for >2 years. It's hard to call this policy "right".
