Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.
* Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis (luca@debian.org) [030723 16:35]:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:54:32PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > If there was a stable release of Debian once a year Debian 3.1 was
> > already released.
> hehe, i knew you would have came to that suggestion sooner or later :)
> But there are softwares for which it could make sense to update more than once in
> a year. Wat bout them?
That applies to data-files (or very similar things) like spamassasin.
There should be in the README.Debian given a location for the backport
by the maintainer.
Cheers,
Andi
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