Re: Care of your packages Was: Accepted dh-ocaml 0.4.1~bpo50+1 (source all)

[Romain Beauxis <romain.beauxis@gmail.com>]

Le mardi 2 février 2010 02:43:46, Jan Wagner a écrit :
> * We want high quality packages on backports.org (backports.d.o in the
>  future)

I'm sorry, but I don't understand this statement that more recent packages are 
supposed to be of a higher quality than old packages. It seems as odd as the 
french translation for downgrade of apt-get ("dégradation").

If a package is working but as a newer version, why care ? How does a higher 
version mean necessarily a higher quality ?

Anyway, I just wanted to remind an important point in the topic of 
backporting: 
 * Please, pretty please, do *not* backport an ABI-incompatible version of 
ocaml in the backports.

I've been strugling with this with the last stable, and the buildd process on 
the backports is too weak to support the dependency resolution in this case.

Additionally, we would have to backport every single ocaml package to the 
backports in order to be able to use the ocaml in backports.org...


Romain