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Re: PHP4 Forward Port to Lenny



Am Sonntag 21 Februar 2010 schrieb Russ Allbery:
> Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> writes:
> > Am Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010 schrieb Russ Allbery:
> >> reprepro is even nicer.  You can do things like automatically pull
> >> uploads of arch: all packages into an unstable distribution to the
> >> stable distribution, and it ensures that you don't shoot yourself in
> >> the foot by having multiple distributions with different packages
> >> having the same version number.
> >
> > Quite some creativity here in supporting someone to do something he
> > shouldn't ;-).
> 
> I think you may have misunderstood.  reprepro applies more global
> consistency checks to ensure that *doesn't* happen.  debarchiver treats
> each distribution separately, so you can end up with packages in a sid
> distribution and in a lenny distribution that have the same version
>  number but different contents unless you're careful about what you're
>  doing.

Oh, I meant it related to the original topic of providing PHP 4 packages 
for Lenny which isn't such a hot idea.

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