Re: Packages not supportable in squeeze-lts

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:18:28AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 16 mai 2014 à 07:12 +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff a écrit :
> > iceweasel  (it was announced to provide a binary not using the full xul-lib approach, though)
> 
> Raphaël is already providing us with iceweasel packages, I don’t see any
> reason not to push them to squeeze-lts.
> 
> > ffmpeg
> 
> Same here.
> 
> > qemu-kvm
> > xen
> > libvirt
> 
> These ones really depend on someone interested enough to make them work.
> 
> On the desktop side, I think you forgot openoffice.org. This one is
> supportable, but only through backports of libreoffice.
> 
> Sooner or later, we will also have to ask the question of the kernel and
> hardware support. Upgrading to the wheezy kernel is workable, and some
> specific packages such as nvidia-glx too, but for X.org this is another
> story.

This would be like a refresh of the etchnhalf kernel idea, I guess.
Changing the default/only supported kernel crosses the line towards
not being a stable supported release, IMO.

Dominic.