uploaded first pkg: pd-motex

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Sat Aug 14 15:14:41 UTC 2010


On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:19:23AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>On 14/08/10 05:40, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 04:42:28PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>> On 13/08/10 15:15, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>>> Backporting a recent debhelper requires backporting dpkg which I 
>>>> wouldn't dare do...
>>>
>>> While I don't want to get in the dh/cdbs debate (I'm fine with 
>>> either), this statement is not true. debhelper requires dpkg-dev >= 
>>> 1.14.19, and stable has 1.14.29.
>>
>> If limiting to backports targeted stable, I completely agree.
>
>Yes. I don't consider supporting (or taking into account) releases 
>older than stable worth the time of any developer (except, maybe, 
>during the few months following a stable release).

Do you consider the "lenny" branch of backports.org part as part of 
"stable"?

Would you if that initiative was renamed to backports.debian.org?

I would not.


How about recompilation for e.g. latest stable release of Ubuntu.  Is 
that "stable" too, or irrelevant?


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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