Contacting Debian will always yield the same results as they've stated for decades now. They fix end-user affecting bugs, but they don't introduce new versions, features, etc. At one time there was the Debian Volatile project that hosted "fast moving" versions of software (spamassassin, clamav, etc), But that project was disbanded years ago.
It is what most distributions do. And frankly I am not that unhappy with it. Sometimes it is nice to have a recent version of something but when a system is continuously updating everything it requires constant attention because things are breaking all the time. Unfortunately most open source developers do not consider backward compatibility very important, they just declare some feature you are using as "deprecated" and you will have to find a workaround or abandon some functionality. I prefer to do that at my own convenience, not at the time the distribution maintainer forces it upon me.
As of today, the authoritative voice is ISC for whether or not bind v9.5.x should be used.. and they say don't. Are you using v9.5.5 as an authoritative server, if so as a master?
We are not using version 9.5.5 and I never wrote that. It is version 9.9.5.
Rob
On January 27, 2019 10:21:30 AM UTC, Rob Janssen pe1chl@amsat.org wrote:
Contacting Debian will always yield the same results as they've stated for decades now. They fix end-user affecting bugs, but they don't introduce new versions, features, etc. At one time there was the Debian Volatile project that hosted "fast moving" versions of software (spamassassin, clamav, etc), But that project was disbanded years ago.
It is what most distributions do. And frankly I am not that unhappy with it. Sometimes it is nice to have a recent version of something but when a system is continuously updating everything it requires constant attention because things are breaking all the time. Unfortunately most open source developers do not consider backward compatibility very important, they just declare some feature you are using as "deprecated" and you will have to find a workaround or abandon some functionality. I prefer to do that at my own convenience, not at the time the distribution maintainer forces it upon me.
As of today, the authoritative voice is ISC for whether or not bind v9.5.x should be used.. and they say don't. Are you using v9.5.5 as an authoritative server, if so as a master?
We are not using version 9.5.5 and I never wrote that. It is version 9.9.5.
Apologies, still v9.9.x went EOL last year.
https://kb.isc.org/docs/bind-9-end-of-life-dates
-Jim P.
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