[sles-beta] Old freeradius-server 2.1.1

[Greg.Lehmann at csiro.au]

I can understand a conservative approach, but it is not consistent. If you were really this careful about not breaking/changing things between SP releases, there would be no need to apply service packs, and we could just get all the updates as patches, as it used to be for SLES 9. An SP would just be about new drivers so we could install on new hardware.

This is my perception, and perhaps I don't understand it all and am happy to be put straight. SuSE decide that some things need updating and go into an SP. If a customer asks for some things to be updated, I'd hope SuSE listens, rather than quoting a policy they don't follow themselves.

I am not happy with the SP process since SLES 10. The lifecycle of either GA or SP is now far too short. The need to manually intervene and apply SPs is akin to a major release upgrade as far as I am concerned. The management overhead is far too high compared to other distributions. Please fix this in SLES 12.

Cheers,

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sles-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com [mailto:sles-beta-
> bounces at lists.suse.com] On Behalf Of Kai Dupke
> Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2013 1:17 AM
> To: sles-beta at lists.suse.com
> Subject: Re: [sles-beta] Old freeradius-server 2.1.1
> 
> On 02/26/2013 04:18 PM, Stefano Toro wrote:
> > SUSE, why you don't upgrade freeradius-server packages to a newest
> release ? At least a 2.1.12 or 2.2.0
> 
> Because this is an SP, not a major version upgrade. A lot of customer
> expect that we don't do such upgrades.
> 
> However, we do backport of features in case there is reasonable demand.
> The version number does not give you a concrete view what's in the
> package if it comes to a comparison to a newer version.
> 
> > Many bug fixes solved in newer release
> 
> and shall be solved in the provided package doing backports as well.
> 
> In case you're hit by a bug, please open an SR. If you know about a fix
> it is allowed to point to this, makes life much easier.
> 
> greetings
> Kai Dupke
> Senior Product Manager
> Server Product Line
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