Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 07:52:15PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:13:07AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > * Anand Kumria (wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au) [060207 04:34]:
> > > I also think volatile is precisely the wrong place to put this kind of
> > > data -- it isn't part of the default apt.sources for one thing; and it
> > > places an extra burden on the maintainer(s) (who know have to track
> > > three different upgrade paths, etc.).
> >
> > Only because you have a prejudice against volatile doesn't mean its the
> > wrong place. Volatile is rather the exactly right place for this kind of
> > update.
>
> It is precisely the wrong place because volatile isn't in
> apt.sources by default. If it were, it'd be a different story.
>
> As it is, volatile is a great solution in search of a problem. It is
> unfortunate that you, and others, seem to latch onto things like as a
> reason to make volatile useful.
You feel yourself at war with volatile because the volatile team
didn't accept a fully new upstream version of gtk-gnutella - which was
never the idea behind volatile. Volatile is not just one more place
for backports.
Greetings
Marc
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