Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 09:25:52AM +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:11:01 +0100 Christian Boltz <opensuse@cboltz.de> wrote:
[1] at least I think so after a short look at the changelog - the entries look more like maintenance stuff. (Please correct me if I'm wrong - maybe I simply missed the "cool new features" section.) On the positive side, courier _is_ actively maintained, which makes it better than procmail ;-)
I again read this as "software that does not need changes for almost 10 years must be bad, only software that is in need of constant bugfixing can be good".
Yes, this is the openSUSE "policy" - for instance, it was one of the reasons given for dropping support for JFS. (at installation time).
JFS was different, IBM explicitly said, "we will not support this", so we dropped support for it as they were the ones providing it.
Funny, that was never, ever mentioned when I was arguing to keep it. Instead, lack of active development and JFS being "mature" were given as arguments for not supporting it. Applying the same arguments, and given the state of procmail, we should surely drop it immediately :-)
And for a filesystem, support is essencial to resolve bugs that will come up, and to help handle issues with new kernel releases (remember, it is just a part of a larger system, the kernel).
In the time since openSUSE dropped support, JFS has been patched several times, mostly minor, but one or two important fixes. Even by SUSE or Novell staff, IIRC. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (3.5°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org