[CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

Sat Jun 19 00:49:13 UTC 2010
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

On 18/06/2010 22:28, Florin Andrei wrote:
> Fun fact: Postfix-2.3.3 has been released in August 2006. Think about that.

While you are doing that - also think about this : Red Hat have a
policy, and they stick with it. Its something that works well for them,
the ISVs around the base and its something that works for us. We have a
policy too, but our policy is split into 2 segments.

1) Stick as close to upstream as possible for the main distro.

2) Its about the users and use cases. Which is unlike Red Hat's cause -
where its about a supportable base, with some level of assurance passing
through to the users about what level of support they can get when they
call a phone number. You dont get that with CentOS - but what you do get
is something like this :

- Step up and offer to maintain ( which would mean taking responsibility
for ) a newer postfix package in CentOSPlus for CentOS-4 and 5 ( Not
sure if 3 is worth doing now ). And there will be @centos.org people who
would gladly help you along the process and facilitate it.

- KB