Heiko Schlichting <exim-users@???> (Mo 05 Okt 2015 17:03:51 CEST):
…
> Uh, oh. Normally I follow the discussions but around the release of 4.86 my
> newborn (second) son had blocked "some" ressources. I've totally missed the
> existence of the +fixes branch.
Congrats. Excuse accepted ;)
> So I was really surprised few days ago after upgrading exim 4.85 to 4.86
> and had crashes on different servers. Instead of trying HEAD, I rolled back
> to 4.85 immediately. After some digging I noticed that the problem was
> already fixed.
…
> It would be no problem for me to cherry-pick the bugfix. I just expected
> a new release for every severe bug (=crashes in normal production). I agree
> that it is possible to use the +fixes branch but it does not match my
> expectations what releases are for.
Yes, +fixes was the fastest possible way to distribute the important
fixes w/o starting a new release cycle and without forcing the
package/self-builders to backport/cherrypick the relevant patches by
themself.
Best regards from Dresden/Germany
Viele Grüße aus Dresden
Heiko Schlittermann
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