Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>]

Jürgen A. Erhard wrote:
> There are patches that simply cannot be backported.  There are others
> that are hard to backport even for the upstream maintainers who are
> *deep* into the code.
> 
> So demanding of a "packager" to "always be able to backport" is too
> strong.

fwiw: granted.

> [I find it hard not to get as slightly ad-hominem as you got, Joey :-|]

Wus?  Please send me a German translation for me in priv mail.

> PS: I do agree that people should be able to understand the language
> their package is written in.  

Ok.

>                               But understanding it and backporting
> something is *very* different.

Ok.

Regards,

	Joey

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