Re: Lenny backports
Christian Perrier schrieb am Mittwoch, den 17. Dezember 2008:
Hi Christian,
> Quoting Alexander Wirt (formorer@formorer.de):
> > Norbert Tretkowski schrieb am Dienstag, den 16. Dezember 2008:
> >
> > > Am Sonntag, den 14.12.2008, 08:59 +0100 schrieb Christian Perrier:
> > > > So, I wonder whether lenny backports could be opened now, for things
> > > > that are in the same situation.
> > >
> > > The original plan was to open lenny-backports when lenny is released.
> > Current policy is that after lenny is releaseѕ everything which is in testing
> > (aka squeeze) can be uploaded. Would this be sufficient for samba?
>
>
> That will help.....providing samba 3.3.* to users of lenny...after
> lenny is released.
>
> However, I would need to provide two things:
>
> - samba 3.2.x with x>5 for *current* users of lenny or unstable,
> before lenny is released
>
> - further versions of samba 3.2.x for users of lenny even if we have
> the 3.3.* releases in unstable, after lenny is released
>
> It means two things:
> - opening lenny-backports *before* the release of lenny
I did not planned this and I don't think that it is usefull to add the extra
work just for samba.
> - allow having different versions in lenny-backports wrt unstable
> after the release of lenny
I don't think that this is a good idea see my explanations on how I
understand backports.org below.
>
> The first proposal is indeed a way to partially address the issue of
> "long freezes" which is currently discussed in -devel....by providing
> up-to-date versions of software in a place that's more official than a
> random developer's home page.
Backports.org is no place for up-to-date versions, its a place for a well
defined (as defined in the policy) versions of packages. I really don't want
backports as a repository for packages not wanted somewhere else. There are
currently to much exceptions and packages which are not available in testing
anymore. But thanks to Rhonda things are currently getting cleaned up.
*snip*
Alex
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