Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

[Loïc Minier <lool+debian@via.ecp.fr>]

Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> - Fri, Oct 08, 2004:

> >                     My proposal is to create a policy for a
> > repository with maintenance, security updates which introduces new
> > packages and provides new functionality on outdated or useless
> > packages from stable, and is built against stable.

> Suppose a nifty new emacs feature is developed; why should that new
> functionality be excluded from this repository you are speaking of,
> merely because it isn't a security update?

 Because the nifty new emacs feature doesn't render the emacs from
 stable useless.  But I think your talking in loops.

     Regards,

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Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>