----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Sibley" <[email protected]>
> We've pushed for 4.0 in the past with various distro maintainers. I > believe most popular distros have _some_ sort of 4.0 package now, but > how up to date it is depends on the maintainer. > > Our Debian maintainer (Dominic) is great, and the request-tracker4 > package versions usually track pretty close to the latest release if > you use backports or "unstable". Lags do occur, such as when Debian > freezes the package trees in advance of release. > > Ubuntu gets all the RT packages from Debian, usually with some of it's > own lag and quirks built-in. It's "community maintained" which means > no one at Canonical is responsible for dealing with it (even for > security!) unless prodded in an approved (albeit documented) process. > > I don't think we'd advocate for pulling 3.8 packages entirely until > it's officially EOL'd. Still, I believe there is an Ubuntu ticket in > Launchpad about pulling 3.8 from the next distro version they release > (opened by someone from the RT community). Perhaps, at the very least, doing one final release that says "DEPRECIATED" somewhere, in large, friendly letters? As a field report, BTW: SuSE 12.1 has no packages at all, even in Packman, and CentOS5 has only rt3 (of unknown release), even with epel and remi. Alas, though those are my 2 target OSs, I'm not sufficiently adept at this point with either RT or packaging to volunteer. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 -- Help improve RT by taking our user survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N23JW9T
