On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:44:46 -0600 Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> articulated:
> 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? ;) FreeBSD had the 2.8 release in its ports system a few days after it was officially released. The 2.9(beta) release will be released into the ports system shortly. The original 2.8(beta) was available almost from its inception. The speed with which a package is made available to a system is directly proportionate to the amount of time and effort a maintainer wished to invest. > 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". CentOS's support for current software is an abomination. I wonder why anyone takes it seriously. -- Jerry ✌ postfix-u...@seibercom.net _____________________________________________________________________ TO REPORT A PROBLEM see http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail TO (UN)SUBSCRIBE see http://www.postfix.org/lists.html 1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.
