Re: Creating a new named official debian repository for OpenStack backports (Uploading all of OpenStack to backports)

[Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>]

On 10/03/14 at 22:27 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 03/09/2014 12:51 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> > One other thing comes to mind: for packages that are slightly more
> > volatile than what the backports maintainers expect, or large
> > collections of packages like OpenStack, is it worthwhile having some
> > alternative to wheezy-backports?  E.g. call it wheezy-backports-plus and
> > just distribute things from unstable or jessie compiled automatically on
> > a wheezy box?
> 
> Actually, now that you make me think about it, I know that FTP masters
> have already implemented creating "any" new named repository. So I'm
> adding them in the loop to ask for it.
> 
> So, dear FTP masters, would it be possible for you to create some new
> repositories for OpenStack? I would need:
> - wheezy-havana
> - wheezy-icehouse

Hi,

I'm very much in favor of providing up-to-date OpenStack packages to
users of wheezy. The fact that the official OpenStack documentation for
Debian points to an unofficial repository is quite sad.

However, I'm not sure I understand what problems would be solved by
using wheezy-havana, wheezy-icehouse, etc. instead of just plainly
wheezy-backports?

Thanks,

Lucas