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Re: Releasing checklist/todo-list



On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 16:04 +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> Frank Lin PIAT schrieb am Saturday, den 21. February 2009:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Since Backports.org is (semi) official service, I would like to suggest
> > to make ${stable}-backports available the same day a new stable
> > distribution is released.
> > 
> > This would be extremely useful for package that are only available
> > through Debian-Unstable and backport.org service (like
> > flashplugin-nonfree).
> Ehm. No. We are not official

Correct (even though Backport is listed on packages.debian.org, which
makes it quite "visible")

> if we need the time do get things for a new release done, then we need
> the time.

I don't know backports constraints. Actually, thinking of it, I
understand that you probably need ${stable} to backport stuffs to
${stable} !

> So please don't do that. 

That was a wishlist, it's up to you.

> Alex - ftpmaster of backports.org

BTW, big thanks for providing this service.

Franklin


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