Re: Bug#761837: xastir: Please update to new upstream 2.0.6
On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 08:46:57 Colin Tuckley wrote:
> On 16/09/14 12:31, David A Aitcheson wrote:
> > For BEST results it is strongly suggested that Xastir be installed from
> > CVS and then to update just run the included "update-xastir" script
> > which updates from CVS and automatically does the make and install with
> > very little needed from the user save for entering a password.
>
> Unfortunately that is not the "Debian Way". If a package is going to be
> in Debian then it needs to follow the Debian protocols regarding
> packaging and updates.
Adding some info for David's comment further above.
Right now Debian is heading for a freeze which is coming November 5th
("remember remember the 5th of November..."), and at that point whatever
version of the package is going to end up in the next "Stable" release
(Jessie) for approximately the next two years and can only get major fixes
during that time. So right now it's important that any version uploaded to
Debian be a potential "long term support" release.
-- Chris
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Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle@coredump.us
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