Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:15:45 -0800 schrieb Rodrigo Gallardo <[email protected]>:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:29:19PM +0100, Christopher Roy Bratusek > wrote: > > > Your responses will help me plan how much I should try to support > > > backporting. > > > > Currently everything non-Debian should have been backported, and in > > general I prefer distributors to not keep their patches > > "personal" (unless configuration related). > > By "backporting" I was actually using the Debian-specific meaning of > making newer packages available for older versions of the distro. For > example, people wanting to run 1.5 in lenny, or maybe even in sarge. > > This is particularly relevant right now, because unstable has just > gained support for a new source package format. I want to adopt it > thoroughly, but older versions of dpkg-source won't know how to unpack > it, so there are needs to be balanced there. Sorry, then I missunderstood you. I heard that, it got lzma support, finally, right? Well, you'll get three answers: I'm using Stable, please provide packages for it! I'm using Testing, please provide packages for it! I'm using Unstable, please provide packages for it! Well I guess most of us use Testing or Unstable, so this should fit the most, backports for Stable aren't difficult, though. So I would say it depends on how much time you want to spend. Chris
