Re: New policies?

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>]

On 02/14/2011 07:34 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Am Montag, 14. Februar 2011 schrieb der.hans:
> Hi Hans,
> > Does backports provide the updates you want to see?
> >
> > http://backports.debian.org/
> No, there are not older packages needed, but NEWER packages from testing
> should be transferred to stable! As I wrote in my example: Pidgin and kopete
> were complete useless for users of stable (almost more than a year!!!),
> because the new version for the new protocol could not be changed in stable.
> It was no security problem! And the code was ok, too, of course.  But things
> like THAT makes stable after some time useless.

Are you sure you visited that page and read the "Introduction" paragraph?

There were Pidgin backports for lenny.


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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