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Re: not later than in testing



On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 08:57:56AM +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Wed, 9 May 2007 09:49:46 +0200
> Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de> wrote:
> 
> > we
> > also decided to allow versions from lenny into sarge-bpo, otherwise it
> > would be pretty useless.
> 
> I disagree that it would be 'useless'.
> 
> Could someone who supports the idea of post-Etch packages being present in
> sarge-backports please explain how to upgrade a system (that contains such
> packages) to etch?

Not that I do support it, but you could upgrade to etch+backports.

That would require that whoever uploads a package to sarge-bpo makes
sure it's in etch-bpo too, but I do happen to think that's a sane
policy.

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	Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will
	want to use it.

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