On Thursday 04 August 2005 00:39, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl> writes: > > On Thursday 04 August 2005 00:25, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> What is wrong with volatile? It's for exactly this case. > > > > No it is not. volatile-sloppy [1] may be (if that's implemented). > > I read that, and I read more importantly volatile.debian.net, and I > don't see any indication there of why gaim upgrades (or mozilla ones) > are not allowed in volatile. From volatile.debian.net: volatile is not "just another place" for backports, but should only contain changes to stable programs that are necessary to keep them ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ functional; Changes to stable programs <> new upstream versions (in principle). As a rule, only changes to data files are accepted. Packaging changes are also not acceptable in principle.
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