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Re: Antw: Re: Log service time?
>>> ??????????? ??????<casper@meteor.dp.ua> schrieb am 06.09.2013 um 14:05 in
Nachricht <1378469133.18073.55.camel@casper-hp.friendin.net>:
> Ð ÐÑÐ, 06/09/2013 Ð 04:42 -0700, Howard Chu ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>> Ulrich Windl wrote:
>> >>>> Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com> schrieb am 05.09.2013 um 22:58
in
>> > Nachricht <0FCBC02976FFDC0CF5D9A489@[192.168.1.22]>:
>> >> --On Thursday, September 05, 2013 10:58 PM +0300 ÐÐÐÐÑÐÐÐÐÐÐ
>> >> ÐÐÑÑÐÐ <casper@meteor.dp.ua> wrote:
>> > [...]
>> >>> OS: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
>> >>> Slapd: 2.4.28-1.1ubuntu4.3
>> >>
>> >> Ugh, ancient.
>> >>
>> >>> Backend: HDB
>> >>
>> >> Yuck.
>> >>
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > Hi guys!
>> >
>> > While I have nothing against bug-free software, I cannot read that
"update
> to
>> > the latest version and database" any more: Is it really because the
> releases of
>> > the previous years that many people used were so terrible (which, by
> induction,
>> > means that the latest versions recommended by that time were terrible,
so,
> as
>> > seen from tomorrow's perspective, the versions advertised today are also
>> > terribly full of bugs. In effect this means that there will never be a
> version
>> > that is not full of terrible bugs), or is it that no-one wants to care or
> take
>> > a look at about previous releases? Or are you just recruiting
beta-testers
> for
>> > the current release?
>>
>> It is Project policy to only investigate issues in the current release.
> There
>> is no sense in tracing back thru old code whose bugs have already been
> fixed.
>
> This means old versions are not supported and makes problems with
> openldap distribution packages as distributions don't update upstream
> versions inside distribution version. :(
>
> For Debian that means staying with bugs for >2 years. It's hard to call
> this policy "right".
Hi!
Actually I don't know which distributors are "back-porting" fixes, but from my
personal experience distributors don't trust the latest release either (and
thus keep what they have) ;-)
Regards,
Ulrich