RE: [exim] Debian as a 'Special Case' for Exim

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Author: David Brodbeck
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To: 'Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,', exim-users
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Subject: RE: [exim] Debian as a 'Special Case' for Exim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, [mailto:dave@restall.net]


> I simply ended up doing a minimal installation and getting
> what I wanted
> as sources and compiling them myself. Eventually you find Debian is
> so out of date that stuff won't compile (may I mention libstdc++.so.5
> and stable).


That's why I don't run Debian Stable. It's just too old, too out of date.
I do at least a partial upgrade to testing on every system I install.
Debian's development cycle is just too slow for Stable to be a useful OS.