Hi,
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 09:12:14AM +0200, Matthias Julius wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 08:49:03 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at> wrote:
> > * Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com> [2010-10-04 22:56:49 > CEST]:
> >> On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 22:32:28 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> >> > Actually, no, because that would give the impression that actually
> >> > backports from unstable are wanted in it, which is only the exception,
> >> > especially for now during the freeze of squeeze. After squeeze is
> >> > released the same rules like for squeeze-backports will apply, the
> >> > package has to be in testing (which will be wheezy by then).
> >>
> >> If they're the same thing at that point, then why have both?
> >
> > Because one is backports to lenny, and one is backports to squeeze?
> > I really hope you can understand the difference?
>
> But, it is called *lenny*-backports-sloppy. This suggests that this is
> also backports to lenny. If I understood your announcement correctly than
> lenny-backports are backports from squeeze and lenny-backports-sloppy are
> backports from squeeze+x.
Let me try to summarize that again:
The following suites are targeting Lenny systems (i.e., packages are
backported to run on Lenny):
* lenny-backports: Packages from Lenny + 1, aka Squeeze, are allowed
only. This ensures that people may upgrade from Lenny + lenny-bpo to
Squeeze (without bpo). Squeeze security updates and point releases
will be included only, once Squeeze has been released.
* lenny-backports-sloppy: Targets Lenny as well, but the "source" of
packages is handled a bit more "sloppy" in that packages from
Lenny + 2, aka Wheezy, are allowed as well. This makes it possible to
still get ("the most") up-to-date packages on Lenny after Squeeze has
been released. An upgrade from Lenny + lenny-bpo(-sloppy) to Squeeze
+ squeeze-bpo *should* be possible, but might be a bit more
complicated in corner cases.
The following suites will target Squeeze systems (i.e., packages are
recompiled to run on Squeeze):
* squeeze-backports: Packages from Squeeze + 1 (aka Lenny + 2) are
allowed in only. I.e., the same set of packages as in
lenny-bpo-sloppy may be included but the packages are built in a
Squeeze environment rather than a Lenny environment.
* squeeze-backports-sloppy: Empty for now, will be relevant once Wheeze
has been frozen.
I hope, things are a bit more clear now.
Cheers,
Sebastian
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