Thomas, Jesus, I feel I owe you both and the list an apology for my last post here. It falls below the standard I would aspire to achieving in terms of courtesy, and that I'm sure you both deserve.
Additionally, I have not only completely missed the point, but done no more than interupt in your conversation. Doubtless, I will now go on to add to the damage ;) On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:41:49PM +0100, paddy wrote: > Thomas, > > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:58:05PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:22:18PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > > If you want something which is simply unrestricted, you have that > > > > now, no need for any changes to anything. > > > > > > I assume you mean use unstable? see below. > > > > No, you can simply use private repositories, or backports, or whatever > > else. > > Yeah, sorry. I realised this after I'd hit send. > > > There need be no Debian-branding of it in any way. > > IANADD. As I said earlier, I'll doing the work either way. > If I thought I was alone, I wouldn't bother anyone with it. As I re-read the thread Jesus, you do indeed seem to be advocating something that is hard to distinguish from backports but 'Debian-branded'. My earlier unease about lumping 'out-dated' together with 'needs-to-be-timely-to-function', is begining to crystalise. I don't yet see what is so special about the problem of an outdated mozilla in stable (for example), that it is _cannot_ best be addressed through security.d.o, testing/sid and backports. (my own pet concerns, are, of course, completely different ;) The idea of a backports but with a more structured/formal policy that enables it to become 'Debian-branded', which Thomas, you seem almost to be suggesting, is an interesting one: perhaps it might solve a host of problems. But it is way beyond me. I can only imagine others have already put far more into backports than I'm ever likely to. Indeed, perhaps I'm simply tilting at windmills and backports already has what I need. I _will_ go and look. If not, then perhaps volatile.d.n could really help to scratch that itch. Regards, Paddy