>>> ??????????? ??????<[email protected]> schrieb am 06.09.2013 um 14:05 in Nachricht <[email protected]>: > 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". Hi! Actually I don't know which distributors are "back-porting" fixes, but from my personal experience distributors don't trust the latest release either (and thus keep what they have) ;-) Regards, Ulrich
