Re: support for older distributions
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Russell Coker wrote:
> But if someone is willing to back-port a package, and to maintain it
> (fixing any bugs that may be reported against it), then why not make
> room on the archives for it?
Would there be any problem to just set up your own Debian-style site with
BTS and apt-able archive, where people can contribute if they want and
where you can semi-automatical merge in upstream (here Debian) updates
(mostly critical bugs and security updates)?
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