On Tue, Feb  1, 2011 at 13:15:04 +0200, Pauli Nieminen wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Alan Coopersmith
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I don't know how many distros are still shipping 1.3.x versions and not
> > yet moving to 1.4.x, to make a new 1.3.x release worthwhile.   I finished
> > updating our packages to 1.4.1 a couple weeks ago, but we have 1.3.5 in our
> > 2010.11 release to maintain.
> >
> 
> Looks like debian is going to stick with 1.3 for quite while as
> current testing is frozen to 1.3.3. But I don't know if they are going
> to upgrade to the new stable release or not. If we wanted to support
> 1.3 as long as there is distros using it I suspect we would need to
> backport fixes for a year still.
> 
We won't update squeeze to a newer upstream (there's stuff in 1.3.4 that
made me too nervous for a freeze).  We've been cherry-picking individual
fixes from the 1.3 branch though.  Probably only going to do that for
critical fixes now that squeeze is actually released though.

Cheers,
Julien
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