Re: vlc backport for fearless people

[Stephan Holl <holl@gdf-hannover.de>]

Hello Sven,

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:16:09 +0100 Sven Hoexter <sven@timegate.de>
wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 11:35:49AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> > Marchand Vincent wrote:
> > > Daniel,
> > > I think your instructions and comments could benefit to other
> > > people as well, those who are not knowledgable in this packaging
> > > issues, but would like to learn.
> > 
> > Speaking of how to make backports, there are two kind of people:
> > those who already know how to package, and those who don't.
> > 
> > Those who already do, only need to carefully follow the rules of
> > backporting:
> > 
> >   1. Backport packages only from testing, not unstable
> >      (except when updating already existing backports,
> >       backports from unstable are accepted for security fixes).
> > 
> >   2. Use 'sarge-backports' as distribution, not stable or unstable.
> > 
> >   3. Reduce the revision by one and append bpo${build_int}.
> > 
> >   4. Backport no Build-Depends if not absolutely needed.
> > 
> >   5. Always build against plain sarge (and include other
> >      backports only if absolutely needed).
> That should be quoted on the website. With a highlight on point 2. ;)

Already received this info from Daniel offlist this morning, I second
this. I have missed some basic backporting-rules like above on the
website when I first visited backports.org.

Cheers
	Stephan