> - creating a branch for stable and providing unofficial packages
> WILL be possible, and a good idea
Oh yes, that's a better idea. Stable being stable is a good thing.
(In spirit, the filters in cruft/filters are almost like the stuff the
volatile archive is meant for, I think. They are plug-in data that are
better if up to date, meaning here that they have caught up with the
rest of stable. So I don't think wanting to change them was totally
evil of me. I can see a scenario where the filters in cruft are always
one release behind the rest of debian ... But your idea is better than
trying to distort the release policy.)
There are many filters that look as if they could be revised. I can make
a list if you would find it helpful. (I found some of them while
thinking about the renaming scheme I proposed for bug #335507.)
Some are for packages not in sarge (ae) or even woody (dpkg-mountable).
Some filters look as if they should be redundant now that cruft
understands the alternatives system. I haven't studied cruft's code for
alternatives, but I have run cruft without
$(grep -l pager /usr/lib/cruft/filters/*)
and it has not listed /usr/bin/pager. So it seems to understand.
Best wishes,
Jeremy
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