Today we got bit by a bug in 1.1.4 that is fixed in 1.1.5, but it was on
a system where I'd rather run 1.0.9 stable. :-|
Stable versions later than 1.0.5 are just never 'officially' packaged in
Debian right now. I would also prefer having the stable releases of
nginx available in squeeze-backports, instead of the development
versions. This means Debian testing also has to stick to those stable
releases. Debian testing is meant to be a place to prepare a new Debian
release, and I think it's a bad idea (tm) to ship Wheezy with a
development release of Nginx anyway.
I agree with the proposal to use the experimental distribution for
development releases of nginx. That would also be the any option left
anyway.
Nginx stable 1.0.x afaik gets all bugfixes that are done in 1.1.x.
I think downgrading the version in Debian testing, although technically
possible (by increasing the package version epoch number, e.g.
1:1.0.9-1) is not the prefered way to go, because it's a disruptive
change, that most of the users (who are possibly using features that are
introduced in 1.1.x) won't normally expect to happen.
Another suggestion would be to fix this issue as soon as nginx 1.2.x is
available, unless this will happen after freezing Wheezy.
This also would mean that until that happens, there's no place in Debian
to distribute the current stable packages, like 1.0.9.
In the meantime, I think I'll start rolling my own 1.0.x packages for
squeeze (and lenny). The nginx package is not very difficult to work on.
I'm more than willing to help with anything related, if needed.
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