Re: Adding new game packages to Lenny

[Sylvain Beucler <beuc@beuc.net>]

> They will not, and a good thing also.
> 
> The risks associated with this are way too large.

Hmm, what kind of risk?

I'm not suggesting to upgrade GCC, but to add independent packages
without reverse deps :)


> Also, that's what a freeze is for: not allowing new stuff.

Well, in Fedora you can retro-add packages to the last 2 releases
pretty easily, so it can't be this bad ;)


> ...but once Lenny releases, there is always the backports project[0],
> which is almost as good as getting it in to the main release :)

Yes, I plan to do this :) The problem is the "once Lenny releases"
part, since until then, backports is frozen too in this regard.

The fact Synaptic doesn't have an easy way to install backports makes
it pretty much unusable for normal (i.e. non-command-line-savvy,
i.e. our target) users too :/


> > I seriously don't think the Release Team will let us add new packages
> > with the freeze in such an advanced state, to be honest.

Yeah, maybe it's a bit late - though in this regard I have a question:
in the last debian-devel-announce you read:

  "unblock requests sent after d-i RC2 will only be considered if they
  fix RC bugs, and nothing else."

Well, I thought this was the case since Jul 27 :( Do we have a "light
freeze" and "real/deep freeze"? It's gonna help me for next time.

-- 
Sylvain