Hi,
Il 17/10/21 19:01, David Sommerseth ha scritto:
On 15/10/2021 13:06, Stella Ashburne wrote:
Debian gets a major release about once every two years and the
OpenVPN package is somewhat outdated.
You seem to miss my point. No, it is not out-of-date. It is fully
supported and receives bug and security updates by the Debian package
maintainer for the lifetime of the distribution. So far the OpenVPN
maintainers over the last 10-15 years has been pretty good at keeping
the OpenVPN package in a decent shape.
That the Debian repositories does not do major updates when the OpenVPN
community releases one, is a Debian package policy. So you will miss
new features arriving in new major releases. But the packages in
supported Debian releases _are_ _up-to-date_ in regards to latest
security and bug fixes. And this is what makes Debian releases far more
stable than many other more bleeding edge distributions.
Indeed. When I add new distro support (e.g. Debian 11) to our packages I
take the upstream (Debian project) control files etc. and use them as a
basis for ours. In this process I very often have to disable several
Debian patches because they are the same patches that we've already
released in our own minor releases.
So yes, Debian is keeping their packages updated with (a subset of our)
patches.
Samuli
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