ipv6 adoption

Ondřej Surý ondrej at isc.org
Wed Feb 16 14:40:00 UTC 2022


> On 16. 2. 2022, at 14:50, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
> 
> not when you don't use 3rd party repos or build it at your own - the whole point of a stable distibution is to not have random major-upgrades of software

Technically, using ISC repositories would be 0-party as it’s upstream provider of the software.

> and unless you have no very good reason you should either stay at the packages from your distribution or make a dist-upgrade

Everything has its pros and its cons. Using the conservative distributions also often means being stuck in past.

> otherwise you end in the chaos MacOS and Windows are when it comes to keep everything up-to-date and get security bugs fixed - linux distributions are backporting security fixes

Debian bullseye follows patch releases of 9.16 and not just backporting security fixes.

Nevertheless, Debian buster is almost EOL (June 2022), so you should upgrade to bullseye in any case.

Ondřej
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