[rt-users] RT 3 and Debian :-)

[Jesse Vincent]

> Its (rt 3.0.11) bleeding edge dependencies aren't even in gentoo's
> portage.
> 
> As a rule of thumb I only want to use software supported by the
> distributions packages management.
> 
> So.. that leaves a question..
> 
> Is it rt's problem it always needs bleeding edge dependencies? or is it
> the distributions we have to blame for (not) updating its packages? or
> is it a larger problem of OSS and its _very_ modular pillars?

RT is a relatively large perl application that stress-tests some things
that haven't previously been well tested by perl applications. Because
of that, we find a fair number of interesting new bugs in perl and
various CPAN modules.