On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:24:48PM -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote: > Fedora 8 shipped with an BIND 9.5.0a6, recently updated to 9.5.0a7. > The release announcement for BIND says: > > BIND 9.5.0a7 is a alpha release for BIND 9.5.0. > > This is a technology preview of new functionality to be be > released in BIND 9.5.0. New APIs are not yet frozen. > > Is this an appropriate release to be putting in a stable Fedora > release? I've encounted a segfault in this version, which I've > reported here: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400461 > > I'm concerned about the policies which allow unstable software in > stable Fedora releases. Is it considered acceptable/encouraged to > have alpha versions of software in the stable release? Is there any > policy? > > Thanks. I've put this software to F8 because it has nice new features. Some bugs is tax for them. Additionally I don't think that users use newest Fedora on important servers and 9.5 will come into beta stage very soon. Adam > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
