Hello Alan,

Ubuntu is currently packaging version 7.4.0 in the latest Ubuntu, so I
really cannot complain too much.  The official position of the project
is that we support the current major version and the prior one.
Currently, that mean 7.4.x and 7.2.x.  What that really means is that
we will officially look at bugs for 7.2.x and 7.4.x, but we only fix them
in the current version of 7.4.x.

Note: this is now documented in www.bacula.org->Support->Bug Reporting

Since we are now working on providing binaries, we will probably have
to think about rebuilding the prior version with fixes.  I am not sure we
will be able to do LTS as Ubuntu does though.

Best regards,
Kern

On 08/02/2016 12:57 PM, Alan Brown wrote:
> On 02/08/16 09:51, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Four points:
>>
>> 1. Bacula version 5.2.6 is *very* old.  It was released 17 February 
>> 2012.  By
>> any standards that is *very* old.  Of course, you are probably 
>> running the
>> version released by Ubuntu -- too bad.  I know this is not helpful, 
>> but you
>> really should take the time to upgrade.  It is easier to upgrade one 
>> version
>> at a time, but in your case you will be upgrading something like 3 major
>> versions!  That is almost a guarantee that something will go wrong in 
>> the
>> upgrade.
>
> I filed a bug some time back about the OS bundled version being so far 
> out of date. The excuse given was that it's inherited directly from 
> Debian upstream.
>
> Supposedly it's being looked into but there is reluctance to update 
> the build outside the Debian stream or within a LTS release.
>
> A formal statement from bacula.org that older versions are not 
> supported/recommended would go a long way to speeing things up.
>
>
>
>
>
>


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