Hi Timo, I'm Pieter Lexis, one of the PowerDNS developers.
> to provide more information about the upgrade I'll chime in on the reason for this. In the current state, the pdns-recursor package in Xenial is not fit for production use (let alone inclusion in an LTS). Several of the issues include: - Configuring forwarding results in SIGABRT (fixed in https://github.com/pieterlexis/pdns/commit/88490c0365375978afea38bf352079b4fef28e17) - RPZ and IXFR with TSIG is broken (fixed in https://github.com/pieterlexis/pdns/commit/bd051ad662f10373bb8f3e13a55cbec3f6ebc91c and https://github.com/pieterlexis/pdns/commit/f0ca9bcf2800bb31513283bbe9fa5d1e2b83dcf6) - The cache would fill the memory with stale entries (fixed in https://github.com/rgacogne/pdns/commit/2b94bb415eb33d909e064cadea06a7c2fcea7380) Combined with the fact that DNSSEC validation has many broken cornercases in Alpha 1 and Alpha 2 (but the Debian package has disabled the validation as per our recommendation), we believe that the package suggested is many times better than the package currently in Xenial. We released this Alpha 2 because of the Ubuntu freeze, as Ubuntu originally pulled in the Alpha 1 from Debian Sid. We contacted devel- discuss, but got little response regarding our suggested solutions (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel- discuss/2016-February/016183.html). I hope this answers your questions regarding why we'd like a freeze exception. The only other solution (in our eyes as upstream) is to have Xenial revert to the Recursor 3.7.3, which might go EOL before Xenial does. Best regards, Pieter Lexis -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1555606 Title: Sync pdns-recursor 4.0.0~alpha2-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pdns-recursor/+bug/1555606/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
