On 2/3/11 1:44 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
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. ;)
That stuff is expensive!
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,
See, I did not know this.
Last I used Debian-pure (instead of Ubuntu), you had to mess with
unstable to get up-to-date packages.
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? ;)
I'm prepared to give them a week ;)
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".
Awfulness is had, somehow.
--
J.
