On Thu, 17 May 2007, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote:
This is closest to "backports" and "volatile" idea. I wouldn't call
it "backports" however, because that reminds porting some very new
software to some very old platform, and this is not the case. The
stable's basic platform should stay LSB-compliant and
"moderately-aged" (supported by all main software vendors) for the
whole length of release cycle. Thus the new versions of desktop
software wouldn't be "backported"; just compiled against ordinary,
stable platform.
That's precisely what a backport is. New versions of a Debian package
compiled against stable with whatever changes are required to get them
to compile. If the root of the concern is because the term "backport"
is scary or otherwise unpalatable, then suggest an alternative term.
Don Armstrong