Jeroen Geilman put forth on 2/2/2011 2:56 PM: > Debian won't have 2.8 in stable until at least 2013, although you may be able > to > get it as a backport later this year: > > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=postfix > > They lag behind something awful.
You're smoke'n crack. ;) 2.7.1 was Wietse's latest stable when Debian froze the testing code base in prep for the release, which should occur within a month or so. Historically Debian has suffered from many stale packages, no argument there. But now that the backports project is an official part of Debian, this situation has become much better. BTW, I'm running backport 2.7.1. How is that lagging behind WRT to a distro package? Wietse just released 2.8 as stable a few weeks ago. Do you expect distro maintainers to have packages ready the next day? ;) CentOS 5.5, their latest, ships with Postfix 2.3.3, which hasn't been supported by Wietse for quite some time. A new install of CentOS 5.5 gives you an officially unsupported Postfix, thought I'm sure CentOS will support it. Now _that_ is "lagging behind something awful". -- Stan
