Hi! Nikita V. Youshchenko [2005-08-01 10:34 +0400]: > Since such cases should be very rare, they may be handled manually (so > infrastructure changes are not needed). For the same reason, I don't think > that stability risks are high.
Agreed. The whole point of backporting patches is to minimize introduction of instability and regressions from new versions. But if backporting produces so many regressions that the package becomes unusable, then that stability argument isn't valid any more, and it should rather be attempted to create good packages with new upstream versions. We did that for the Mozilla products in Ubuntu (in fact we seem to be the only ones who actually tried to backport the 1.0.5 changes, all other distros just upgraded to 1.0.5 proper), and apart from some minor things (upgrade of the locale packages in our "Warty" release which shipped Firefox 0.9.3, and enigmail upgrade), the upgrade was pretty smooth and the users are happy again. Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian Developer http://www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
