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Re: Wheezy freeze and squeeze-backports-sloppy



On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 14:17:27 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:

>     Hi again.
> 
> * Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at> [2012-07-30 09:05:09 CEST]:
> > * Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> [2012-07-12 17:57:46 CEST]:
> > > I wasn't very happy back then either. It was sort of rushed through in
> > > some private IRC pings about me setting it up on the wanna-build side.
> > > All I'm saying is if it would be possible to review the arguments,
> > > having had the experience for one cycle.
> > 
> >  The arguments why it is wanted (and to some degree needed) didn't
> > change since then.  There are still the two groups of people who expect
> > backports to be upgradeable to the next release _without_ backports, and
> > those who still want to have newer versions in _after_ the release.
> > Both are valid concerns, and both have their userbase.
> > 
> > > It's sad that we do not currently scale on the buildd side, but that's
> > > how it is.[1]
> > > 
> > > (And it's likely to take a month until all buildds have implemented it,
> > > given the current speed of any buildd updates needing to take place.)
> > 
> >  Is there anything we can help with that?  (and, ouch :( )
> 
>  I'd like to re-ask this question, it might went unseen.  Is there
> anything we can help with?  postgres-9.2 was one of the things that was
> asked about already, and I suspect that there are people wanting to
> provide other stuff too.
> 
There's a lot you can do to help get wheezy out.  After which you can
put new stuff in backports again.  Everybody wins.

Cheers,
Julien

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