On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 04:46:51PM +0000, Stephen Quinney wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:17:50PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > ti, 2005-02-01 kello 15:25 +0000, Stephen Quinney kirjoitti: > > > This is the 3.4 series of RT, it can be installed alongside the 3.0 > > > and 3.2 series without any problems. This release is a big > > > improvement over previous versions and features many new features, > > > substantial performance improvements and a significant cleanup and > > > restructuring of the codebase. > > > > What is the a reason every version series of Request Tracker needs to be > > packaged, instead of having a single request-tracker package that gets > > updated with newer versions? > > The changes between major versions of Request Tracker are typically > substantial and one usually wants the opportunity to test an > installation of the new version alongside the old version. If a user > has made lots of local alterations (via RT's overlay system) they > probably won't work without being updated to the new API. This method > gives people a much easier upgrade path.
The same could be said of a lot of packages in Debian. Why can't users do roughly the same thing as they do for every other application in Debian -- test new releases of software separately before they go running around dumping them on production boxes? - Matt
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