I think what we would really need to check is if Debian has a meason maintainer if yes we need to work with them to keep meason up to date in Debian unstable and then the newer version will trickle its way down to each new release of ubuntu.
-----Original Message----- From: Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> Sent: 29 April 2019 05:16 To: enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E-devel] EFL Autotools freeze proposal On 26/04/2019 17:10, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > Hi Ross, > > Why go through the headache of getting something backported when you can just > create a ppa for all supported releases and one just add's a ppa? > > Regards, > Jonathan > Generally because if the package is in a PPA it can't be used to build an official package, so you wouldn't be able to use it to update the current efl version. I'm not sure if debian allows you to use a backports package to build a package in stable, but i'm guessing you could use it to build a package in backports. > On 25/04/2019, 22:56, "Ross Vandegrift" <r...@kallisti.us> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 04:40:40PM +0000, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > Hi Ross thanks for the tips, I don't think it is that easy to get > > something in to backports unless it fixes a bug or security > > vulnerability hence the use of PPA's they allow for bleeding edge > > stuff. > > I think you're mixing up backports & stable. Stable releases only > accept security fixes & small changes. Backports provides a path for > selectively providing newer versions of software to stable. It's an > opt-in repo. See: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports > (The same is true for Debian.) > > It shouldn't be too hard to get new backports accepted - the hardest > piece is probably finding someone to do the testing. > > Ross > > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
