Everybody, please don't CC me, I'm subscribed to the list. On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:38:25 +0100, Kevin Peat wrote:
> On 23 April 2011 15:35, David Paleino <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Also, would you please stop distributing unofficial .deb packages? > > So if I want to use the latest version of something I have to wait for Mark > Shuttleworth & Co. to package it up for me No, usually the maintainer packages the latest released tarball. Or even a snapshot, like the current Debian package is. If you really need some newer version of some software -- which the maintainer forgot to prepare --, or some feature backported, just file a bug to the package maintainer. > and then do a complete distribution upgrade to get it. I don't think so. That's plain wrong. You don't need to upgrade the whole distribution to get ONE package. Google for "APT pinning", or similar methods, to stay up-to-date on some package. Please, don't get me wrong. But I really don't want to have bugs filed for unofficial packages. Christian can obviously provide whatever he wishes. But then I can't assure it will work with the rest of the distribution. That said, do what you prefer. Next time I receive a bug about a unofficial package, I'll point people to this thread. Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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