Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 21.03.2012, 13:07 +0100 schrieb Iustin Pop: > So, I'm again looking at this problem, as my work project has started > depending on newer versions of a few libraries than are available in > stable, so if we actually want to provide a backport to squeeze, we need > to solve that problem too. > > I'm a bit split about the entire set as opposed to 5 libs. On one hand, > I understand the nicety about nice upgrade paths, but on the other hand > I'm not sure how big the effort is for the entire rebuild (as opposed > to, again, just ~5 libs). > > Thoughts? Do you think it's feasible and "cheap" enough to do the entire > platform backport? for a local backport, just rebuilding 5 libs is of course the right thing to do. But I’m reluctant to start backporting individual libs for squeeze-backports; that would be confusing to the users and also tricky when depending packages need to be rebuild (I am not sure whether our infrastructure handles that). Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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