Re: [DebianGIS] Debian Lenny - mapserver version
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Ivan Mincik <ivan.mincik@gista.sk> wrote:
> I would like to clarify the process of maintaining the mapserver package in Debian. Mapserver package is frozen in Lenny at version 5.0.3-3.
> There where lot of bug fixes done when reaching 5.2 version. So my question is: Is it really possible to backport all these fixes to Lenny's package ?
Probably not.
> Or, how it will be decided that some patch will be included to frozen/stable distribution?
The release team regularly posts their migration policy during the
freeze to debian-devel-announce:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/09/msg00000.html
Once lenny is out and mapserver 5.2 has reached squeeze (the new
testing), then it can be built against lenny and uploaded to
lenny-backports at backports.org.
"stable" in the context of Debian means unchanging (except for
security updates and other RC issues), not rock-solid.
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bye,
pabs
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