On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:30:07AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > 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 :) > > > That's sadly totally untrue. Either you mean "use all the source in the > archive with the DPKG-DEV available in stable" Yes, that's what we mean. The reason is that for various things (e.g., buildd, ftp-mastery, ...), we need to be able to manipulate source packages with the tools in stable. Note, I said "manipulate", not "build". -- The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the pavement is precisely one bananosecond
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