Jean Christophe Andr? wrote: > Phuong Vo a ?crit : >> Most package should work with newer version of ubuntu anyway, as >> most package dependencies are ">=". > The problem is not about dependencies on versions numbers but on > package names instead, that change from one release to the next one. > > Eg mozilla-thunderbird became thunderbird starting from Gutsy: > http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=thunderbird > > And now, from Hardy to Intrepid, we move from myspell to hunspell? > > Just to name a few, but often we also want to change software choice > at the occasion of the release change because new ones are better or > old ones are no longer supported?
Even that creating one repo is still less work to do. Every time a new release comes out, we only need to test with it lets say jaunty, fix any package that breaks, let's say if we move from myspell to hunspell, any package that depended on myspell should now depends on myspell|hunspell or something equivalent. Then we can announce "tested with jaunty", maybe even put it on the main page of virror. And if it works with debian that's fine too. That will drive the hanoilug repo towards as much self-dependent as possible. The way it is now, every time ubuntu releases a new version, the entire repo must be recreated, most of the packages need almost no change. And it also encourage people to contribute. If I need hanoilug repo to work with jaunty or dapper but it would not work. It much more easy to just fix the few packages that break and send in the fix than writing an email saying "hi JC please create a new repo for me" :) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 260 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.hanoilug.org/pipermail/hanoilug/attachments/20090113/28def8f9/attachment.pgp
