Thoughts please: 4.54.4 as a stable?

Nick Smith nick.smith67 at googlemail.com
Fri May 26 14:00:50 IST 2006


On 5/25/06, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Matt Hampton wrote:
> > David Lee wrote:
> >
> >> Knowing that the label "stable" means reliable is, to my mind, much more
> >> important than release schedules.  Aiming at a regular schedule is nice.
> >> But having the label "stable" mean reliable is absolutely essential.
> >>
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> >
> >
> >> So... 4.53.x or 4.54.x ?  My vote is that the "stable" link should point
> >> to the most reliable.  And I understand that to be 4.54.x .
> >>
> >
> > This may require more effort but how about the old "even are stable" thing.
> >
> > 4.54.x becomes the stable release.  New features are add to 4.55.x.
> >
> > Bug fixes are backwards ported to 4.54.x
> That requires me to maintain 2 versions of MailScanner at any one time.
> Extra work :-( ==> not likely to happen :(
>
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Just wondering - was this deliberate (4.54.5 vs 4.54.2)?

bash-3.00# diff -ur /opt/MailScanner/etc/filetype.rules.conf.orig
filetype.rules.conf
--- /opt/MailScanner/etc/filetype.rules.conf.orig       Wed Apr 12 09:45:43 2006
+++ filetype.rules.conf.orig    Tue May 23 07:52:42 2006
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 # If none of the rules match, then the filetype is allowed.

 allow  text            -                       -
-allow  script          -                       -
+allow  \sscript        -                       -
 allow  archive         -                       -
 allow  postscript      -                       -
 deny   self-extract    No self-extracting archives     No
self-extracting archives allowed

Thanks

Nick


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