Newbie Update - & thanks! :)

[Michael Hernandez]

On Apr 2, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Marian Hettwer wrote:

> Hi DES,
>
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:42:51 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no>
> wrote:
>> Marian Hettwer <mh at kernel32.de> writes:
>>> Actually you'll find a lot of applications in FreeBSD ports where  
>>> you
>>> wouldn't find them as a debian package for instance :) Especially in
>>> regards to the version of this specific software.  Example?  Debian
>>> Sarge --> No Apache 2.2
>>
>> 1) the latest Debian release is Etch, not Sarge
>>
> I know that the latest release is Etch. I never said that Sarge is the
> latest release.
> However, Sarge was around for a long period of time and my statement  
> was:
> No apache 2.2 there.
>
>> 2) this is a matter of policy, not incompetence; packages associated
>>   with a particular release receive only bug fixes, not feature
>>   upgrades.
>>
> I know. I disagree with that policy, though.

<snip!>

I have always hated that with any distribution of Linux - it seems you  
can get a stable (1.4.x release for example) of something, but once  
many bugs are fixed upstream - perhaps in a 1.6.x release... you'll  
never see those changes unless you cast package management aside and  
build it yourself, or wait until the next distro release.

--Mike H