Good morning, what's up with a deb version 2.5.4 for Debian 10/Buster and 9/Stretch?
-- Am 20.10.2021 um 10:13 Uhr schrieb Samuli Seppänen <sam...@openvpn.net>: > 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 OpenVPN package is somewhat outdated.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 No, it is not out-of-date.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 _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
