[Pkg-exim4-users] stable vs. other repositories

[Gerhard Kroder]

Andreas Metzler wrote:

>On 2005-12-03 Gerhard Kroder <gerhard.kroder at t-online.de> wrote:
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>>How do YOU deal with this?
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>Current clamav for sarge is availble on volatile.
>deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-volatile sarge/volatile main
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uuh, haven't heard of "volatile" 'till now. sounds interesting.

>Once the dak
>setup on backports.org is finished the packages will propagate to the
>regular backports.org repository.)
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Good to have alternatives, and i consider making use of them. But, as 
side effect, we step out of the "stable" concept for productive 
environments, don't we? With no basic "in time" security updates? I 
really appreciate people supplying backports, sideports and other 
repositories, and i know they support this as far as possible. But this 
probably less standardized as "regular security support".

Have there been any efforts/ideas to prevent this split-ups? There 
schould be significant demand from users running "stable" servers,  
needing stabel _and_ current services like exim e.a. I'm shure this is 
an issue. Has it been addressed before in Debian community? I know 
software is somtimes a fast moving target, especially in the line of 
network and security. And this is contrary to the stable concept and the 
underlying time-span realized by Debian people. And for myselve, i have 
no idea how to deal with this. So, i'll go "as is"...

> Newest latest clamav and
>spamassassin should work fine with sarge's exim4, BTW.
>               cu andreas
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Good to hear.

Thanks for your infos..

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Gerhard