[ic] Using Mod Interchange 2 questions

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Stefan Hornburg)]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:01:37 -0500
"Jeff Dafoe" <jeff@badtz-maru.com> wrote:

> > in to the mod_ssl maintainer today as well. It seems as if Debian has ot
> > gotten around to upgrading Apache and mod ssl yet
> 
>     Debian is really bad with regards to the situation created by rapidly
> backporting security fixes but largely neglecting the fact that newer
> versions of the upstream software typically also fix a zillion bugs.  The
> postgresql package is one of the worst offenders, apache is another.  Up
> until recently, Debian stable postgresql was version 6.5, which was a
> hideous piece of turd, security fixes or not.  The current release version
> of postgres was 7.2 .  I use Debian on all my systems but typically tarball
> apache and postgresql for this reason.

In most cases backporting Debian packages from unstable/testing with apt-get source
and dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot works very well, so there is usually no need
to cope with the tarball.

Bye
       Racke