On Tuesday 16 October 2007 19:06, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: > João Pinto napisał(a): > >>I note that you are distributing gnucash 2.2.1 for Feisty: > > > > Possible causes: > > - We have packaged it before it was available on backports > > - We missed to verify that it was on backports, or for some odd reason > > we decided to publish it knowing that it was already available on > > backports, regardless of the reason, it was great for those more than > > 500 users that installed it from getdeb, if we did some duplicated work, > > bad luck for us, getdeb. > > Backports is sometimes not a proper solution, because it causes upgrade > to all the newest versions of a lot of packages. For example, if user > wants to upgrade amarok but not kopete, he can do it using GetDeb, but > he cannot do it using backports (forget package pinning/repository > priorities, it is in no way intuitive and cannot be done by "average > users"). > > Just my 2c. > Generally I enable backports, install what I want, and the disable it again. That I think most people can do.
It doesn't "cause upgrade to all the newest versions of a lot of packages". That only happens if the user specifically requests it. Of course it's not rare for people to run with -proposed (even) enabled all the time. We recently had a problem with an svn upload to feisty-proposed and quite a few people tripped on the bug who apparently had no idea they were downloading from a testing repository. Getting repos enabled does not appear to be a major problem. Scott K -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
