- Quanah Gibson-Mount (quanah@symas.com) [211104 22:59]:
--On Thursday, November 4, 2021 8:25 AM -0700 Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
On 11/4/21 5:04 AM, Wolfgang Bock via Mailman-users wrote:
My conclusion: I ask you to consider these experiences in an update for the mailman3 packages in debian bullseye. It would save time, questions and nerves.
Issues with Debian packaging should be directed to Debian.
Or as previously discussed, the debian packages should be avoided entirely.
I strongly disagree with that statement.
Distribution packages have their own up- and downsides. Of course, how they are done is to be discussed with the distribution, so: if something is wrong with a debian package, please follow the instructions on bugs.debian.org on reporting bugs.
However, they have the advantage that they're integrated with the distribution. They have the disadvantage that they're stable for some time - that is why it's called a stable release. If they have all the features someone wants, they usually work fine (and my first mm3-installation was the default debian package). If one looks for bleeding edge, of course that's not what one can expect from a distribution package - but that's also a feature.
Andi