Re: Creating a new named official debian repository for OpenStack backports (Uploading all of OpenStack to backports)
On 11/03/14 at 22:08 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > I'm not completely convinced that we need several versions of
> > OpenStack at the same time in a backports-like repository, but if you
> > want to achieve that, that's a way that doesn't involve separate
> > repositories for each release.
>
> How would you do it then? I don't think it's realistic to, on each
> release, rename about 80 .deb files for the core packages, just to have
> version numbers. This would be *very* messy, and loss of time for the
> FTP masters, and error prone for package maintainers (because of the
> need to get the Replaces: / Provides: / Breaks: right on all packages to
> make upgrade working).
Then you could have only the version in testing also in backports, that
is, the latest OpenStack version? That's still better than nothing.
L.
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