* Matthew Palmer: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:27:30PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >> * Lars Wirzenius: >> >> > 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? >> >> Request Tracker is a development framework for trouble ticket systems. >> Users are encouraged to add new code to its (Perl) packages, and >> there's an overlay mechanism to support this. >> >> Unfortunately, this makes updates non-trivial, at least sometimes. > > So you do a bit of testing before madly apt-get dist-upgrading your > production servers. What a concept.
As Andrew noted, we already do similar things for library packages. There's a growing trend to provide different version which can be installed in parallel for other infrastructure packages, too (IIRC, PostgreSQL is heading in this direction, too). As a user, I think this is very convenient. The ability to switch back to a known-to-work version by tweaking a few configuration files is reassuring, even if you've tested the new software version on an indepedent machine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
