> > I'm still open on this, but I wouldn't release an official patch without > having it properly tested, so putting out an untested patch is not what I > consider a good solution. Even the current patches are not "officially" > released but are attached to an open bug report.
Understood. > Can you explain why a patch would help with a "distribution packaged > version of Bacula"? >From Debian (the only distribution I'm really familiar with): Sarge (oldstable) - 1.36.2 Sarge-backports - 1.38.11 Etch (stable) - 1.38.11 Lenny (testing) - 2.0.3 Sid (unstable) - 2.2.0 Do you believe that the bug is bad enough that any distribution should not be releasing a version of Bacula that isn't patched? If that's the case, then should Debian remove Bacula from Etch if it can not or will not be patched? My understanding of the way Debian is works is that updating Etch to 2.2.x just won't happen - bugfixes and security fixes only. The 2.0.3 package from Lenny builds under Etch just fine. The 2.2.0 package builds under Etch once you backport a few other packages, but they are only going to get further and further apart, so in 6 months time, someone wanting to backport the current version of Bacula might have a bit of a problem. I have no problem with 'abandoning' the 1.x series from a bugfix point of view (and I understand you aren't completely sure if the bug exists in that stream anyway), but I think enough distributions have the 2.0.x series that it would be worth the effort - or maybe they have different release structures to Debian... Maybe the other alternative would be to carefully document the exact situations which will and will not cause the bug to arise. As someone else pointed out, it would be a shame to damage the good name of Bacula with something like this. That's my opinion anyway, thanks for listening :) James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
