On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 07:30:29AM +0000, Philipp Kern wrote: > > Of course I'm not taking it for granted that you would accept these packages > > into squeeze and intended to ask you if this would be ok, once there were > > actual patches to be considered. But since you're here: would targeted > > patches to backport support for :any/:native be ok for a stable update? :-) > Is this just about parsing/accepting them or also more intrusive dependency > analysis? For basic parsing support that might be ok if the patch is sanely > reviewable and guaranteed not to cause regressions. No guarantees about > acceptable, though.[*] Strictly about parsing them. > [*] It's also a bit of cheating if we allow such updates into stable. > Why didn't we add other compression formats and other source formats to > dpkg in stable then; we did claim that you need to wait a cycle for them to > be used. I don't want that can of worms to be opened. I see your point. Actually, I was thinking in terms of this being required only on the buildds; but anyone upgrading from squeeze .0 to wheezy would also be impacted if they tried to use a dpkg and/or apt that didn't understand this syntax. We might have no choice but to defer use of :any until the wheezy release. :/ -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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