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resurrecting woody backport repository



As some of you have probably noticed, my woody backport repository is
out of data since a while.

The main reasons is that I've changed laptop switching from an i386 to a
powerpc architecture and I need to reconfigure repositories handling
system to handle both architectures. I'm almost finished, though: in a
few days I will be able to support woody again.

In spite of that, handling backported packages is going to be each day
more difficult because packages started depending on new
debhelper/debconf packages.

My proposal is to put as a requirement for using the woody backport
repository the availability of such packages on the woody system. There
are a lot of unofficial apt repositories offering such packages for
woody (notably the Adrian Bunk's).

Do you think it's an eccessive requirement?

The alternative is to manually backport packages to
debhelper/debconf/whatever and I don't know if I can afford doing that
...

Cheers.

-- 
Stefano Zacchiroli  --  Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy
zack@{cs.unibo.it,debian.org,bononia.it}  -  http://www.bononia.it/zack/
"  I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not
sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!  " -- G.Romney

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