[Bug 693303] Re: please backport php 5.3.3/5.3.4 to lucid

[J Queiroz]

Em 15 de abril de 2012 23:53, rsteinmetz70112 <rob at steinmetznet.com> escreveu:
> On 01/22/2012 03:20 PM, J Queiroz wrote:
>> There are lots of unnoficial backports available. By the way, april is
>> coming with a new LTS version.
>>
> I'm not sure this will get through, but for an LTS edition to be
> released without checking the viability of the packages included seems a
> major lapse. That a version intended for Long Term Release to suffer
> through these issues is incomprehensible.

Did you verified if, when 10.04 was released, was there any version of
PHP newer than 5.2?

Surely was a flaw that PHP 5.3 wasn't made available as a backport, as
it would bring security fixes. But you cannot blame a system for not
bringing a version that's not released yet.

Right now, 12.04 is already in the "freeze" state. If for any reason
PHP 5.5 get launched tomorrow, you cannot expect that Ubuntu 12.04 get
unfrozen just to include it. And in middle 2013, you cannot complain
that 12.04 doesn't have this version.

This is a peculiarity of a versioned distribution. If you can't deal
with it, maybe you should use a rolling release distribution, as
Debian Sid or Gentoo.

>
> In my mind an LTS edition is intended to insure long term stability, not
> long term instability.
>

Don't mix stability of one program with stability of the package system.

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