Re: Backports integrated into the main archive
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 01:59:02PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> Dear users and supporters of the backports service!
>
> The Backports Team is pleased to announce the next important step
> on getting backports more integrated. People who are reading
> debian-infrastructure-announce[1] will have seen that there was an
> archive maintenance last weekend: starting with wheezy-backports the
> packages will be accessible from the regular pool instead of a separate
> one, and all backports uploads will be processed through the regular
> upload queue (including those for squeeze-backports and
> squeeze-backports-sloppy).
>
[...]
> == Thanks ==
>
> Finally, we want to thank the FTP-Master Team for their fine work on
> making this happen.
I already asked about that in September 2010 and this was the reply
from Joerg:
> > (a) Wouldn't it have made more sense to directly integrate it into the
> > main ftp, just as different suites?
>
> No.
What has changed since then?
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