Re: Upcoming announcement: backports.debian.org
On Sep 1, 2010, at 20:11, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mi, 01 sep 10, 14:46:56, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Soonish (this weekend?) we'll need to send out a new announcemet, as the
>> move from www.backports.org to backports.debian.org is about to be
>> finished.
>>
>> I got some comments via IRC and put them (including an english summary)
>> so http://whiteboard.debian.net/b.d.o-announcement.wb.
>>
>> As I'm currently on a business trip, it would be very good it, if
>> someone could start drafting an announcement. For further questions,
>
> Let me try :)
Really well done! Thanks Andrei.
I picked a couple of nits in your draft; just really, really minor things. I've added them directly to your text since my changes didn't really make a qualitative difference.
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>
> Backports service becoming official
> ===================================
>
> The Debian Project is proud to announce that the backports service,
> previously available at www.backports.org is now an official Debian
> service and will be available at backports.debian.org
>
> Backports are packages from the testing distribution recompiled for the
> current stable (or even oldstable) release to provide users of the stable
> distribution with new versions of certain packages, like the Linux kernel,
> the Iceweasel browser or the OpenOffice.org suite, without sacrificing
> the overall stability of the system.
>
> The archive currently has packages backported for the Lenny distribution.
> (how many?) As the infrastructure to accept packages for the upcoming
> Squeeze release is already in place, this allows Debian Installer images to
> configure the backports repository by default without generating errors
> on user systems. The service for Squeeze will be enabled at a later
> date, after the release.
>
> Because of limitations in the Debian Bug Tracking System, any bugs
> relevant to backported packages still have to be reported to the
> debian-backports list, which will now also move to lists.debian.org.
>
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> Regards,
> Andrei
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Warm regards,
Jeremiah
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