Hi Guys,

to make a long story short...

would it be ok, to use breezy updates for this?

I mean, if it's in universe, we (MOTU) can handle this...obviously it
should be done by someone who has the right mono knowledge.

regards,

\sh

On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 19:25 +0100, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> On So, 2005-11-13 at 19:05 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > It was imo just a matter of time when this problem would arise. The
> > fact is that we agreed that time that official backports are really
> > just recompilation of sources from the development branch. So if you
> > really want to have 'real' maintainer uploads to -backports, I'd
> > suggest working on a well written spec describing a clear policy what
> > is to be done when doing these uploads.  This spec/proposal would
> > definitely need blessing from the technical board again.
> 
> Yes, that would be necessary in that case... but I don't care enough to
> write such spec... maybe jdong wants to ;)
> 
> But I've talked to tseng and we came to the conclusion that it won't
> hurt to backport the complete mono stack... if it's done right! and not
> now but when we got all the latest stuff working together
> 
> > Until this happens, I see no other choice than providing selected
> > packages in personal package archives. This would mean dubious 3rd
> > party archives again and the resulting problems with supporting our
> > users. :(
> 
> There already exist such 3rd party repos that have latest banshee and
> dependencies
> 
> > > Or I could upload a stripped ipod-sharp to dapper, this one gets
> > > backported and I add monodoc support again. But this seems to be
> > > braindead to me... and I won't like to do it
> > 
> > what would you do when you need to update the package in
> > breezy-backports again? Imo this would be a nightmare, please don't.
> 
> Don't worry... I'm not planning something that evil :)
> 
> Bye

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