Re: Bits from the dpkg maintainer

[Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.iki.fi>]

ma, 2005-06-13 kello 10:10 +0200, Peter Palfrader kirjoitti:
> Historically we always wanted to be able to use all the source in the
> archive with the tools available in stable.  If that policy is still
> true you would be able to use the new features by the time edge releases
> with the new dpkg.  That is in some 10 to 18 months :)

Unless we update sarge with a new version of dpkg that can handle the
new source format, of course. ;-)

That is, however, probably a bad idea. dpkg it too critical a piece for
a Debian system for us to muck about it more than we have to, in a
stable release.