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<I>Sat Oct 1 00:57:35 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>on Sat, 1 Oct 2011 08:05
in the Usenet newsgroup gmane.linux.mageia.devel
Maarten Vanraes wrote:
><i> Op vrijdag 30 september 2011 23:35:40 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
</I>>><i> Le jeudi 29 septembre 2011 21:10:42, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
</I>[snip]
>><i> > Also, the sooner we have backports, the less there will be external
</I>>><i> > third- party repos with all the problems (upgrade, support) that causes.
</I>>><i> > There already are, don't let them too much space and rather invite their
</I>>><i> > packagers to backport *inside* (as long as they stay within the policy
</I>>><i> > of course).
</I>[snip]
>><i> If needed, the tremendous amount of packages in Blogdrake's 3rd party media
</I>>><i> shows how much backports are needed by users, whatever we as packagers can
</I>>><i> think of it.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> I'm still convinced that opening backports right now, using one of my 2
</I>>><i> proposals (if I haven't overlooked a technical difficulty), would be an
</I>>><i> important step forward for us.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Best regards
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Samuel
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I have to agree, if opening backports brings in more packagers who are likely
</I>><i> to integrate well AND bring in more users AND likely would step up and
</I>><i> maintain similar packages, we should help their effort and not get our
</I>><i> community too splintered, even though updates _is_ more important than
</I>><i> backports.
</I>
Potentially silly idea:
Would it be worth having backports-supported and backports-unsupported,
or backports and backports-untested, or backports and backports-3rd-party?
You could occasionally move things in either direction between
supported and unsupported.
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