Hi, El Martes, 1 de Abril de 2008 a las 04:14, Bill Cole escribió: > That's a question about the competence of the people maintaining that > repository. Presumably these would be the people who blessed a > pre-release version of Dovecot almost 18 months ago, in a period when > such versions were being released every few days *due to bugs*, and > who have not updated their build at any time since. It seems to me > that these are not people who should be tasked or trusted with being > the gatekeepers of software deployment, as that seems to be > demonstrably beyond their competence.
RedHat (and CentOS) has his own policy about releases, and more or less it is: "no update will break a working instalation". So they try to port any security patches to their running versions -and this is a lot of work, they have their own forked version of almost any package!-, but almost never add any new funcionality. This policy has one great point: it's easy to understand, and it gives few surprises. And this is great most of the times. Pre-1.0 Dovecot is the kind of software that doesn't fit well in that policy: a lot of changes, and no standard stable version. So they chose one version -1.0rc15 in this case-, because their other option was not including dovecot. That's exactly why I'm compiling dovecot from source, but I usually like the default policy. Aaaaaaaaaagur. -- Joseba Torre. CIDIR Bizkaia.
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