On 21/07/12 06:37, Tom Eastep wrote: > On 07/20/2012 01:34 PM, Brad Clarke wrote: >> ... >> As a consumer of the Debian package, I say stick with what you're >> doing and let Debian go stale for a while. It's their freeze so they >> should be the ones to suffer the consequences, not you guys. Most >> people probably know about Debian's annoying policy and have >> workarounds in place where needed anyway (like using Roberto's >> personal repository). > It's not that Debian will go stale; it is rather that it has bugs that > we would like to correct so that people won't be running into them for > the next two years.
Most of the time, i'm perfectly happy to have a buggy version of Shorewall in Debian. The bugs are usually minor and only encountered under very specific circumstances. I consider that the cost of running a distribution that focuses on low-churn, stable releases, and it's more than worth it to me. Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-devel
