On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:25:51 -0500, Walt Reed <wreed@???>
wrote:
>Many of the debian users that come in here do with the
>attitude that they expect support - not realizing that they are using
>software that was outdated 3 years ago.
Debian now has its own exim-users mailing list, and I have already
asked the exim 4 maintainer to put that address in his packages. The
exim 4 packages uploaded yesterday already have the address all over
the place.
>Continuing to ship old
>dead software is (IMHO) a horrible policy decision.
Please make your case on debian-project@??? or
debian-devel@???
>So we can still expect droves of Debian users
Well, that's the price of making good software and thus having it
actually used.
>It's debian USERS that are harmed due to the Debian policies. They
>can't get support because debian ships software that is old and dead.
Your point of view may vary. A lot of people love debian for not
releasing every three months and providing seamless upgrades.
>People are still installing Woody new today, and therefor still doing
>brand-new installs of exim3. That is DEFINATLY Debians fault. There is
>nothing stopping Debian from doing "refreshes" and changing the default
>MTA to exim4 in woody - the backport has existed for a very long time.
What stops us is our own policy to only have bugfixes in a
distribution once released. People rely on that policy. I don't think
we are going to change that one soon.
Greetings
Marc
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