Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org
Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> writes:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 11:54:05AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
>> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
>
>> > Could you elaborate on that? Why is it so painful?
>
>> Probably because you need maintain packages for both unstable and
>> testing at the same time.
>
> This is exactly what happened in the past when we forked off the frozen
> release: you wound up maintaining both the frozen and unstable versions
> of packages (unlike today it was possible to upload to both
> simultaneously if there was as yet no reason to fork).
Yes, and everyone agrees it was far from ideal.
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Jérôme Marant
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