* Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Norbert Tretkowski [Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:02:03 +0100]: > > * Joseph Smidt wrote: > > > Do you think we will ever see backports officially supported by > > > Debian? > > > > No. > > Is this to be read "as the person behind backports.org, I don't have > in mind working to make them official", or "I believe ftp.debian.org > will never carry a 'backports' suite"?
The latter. Maybe it's possible to provide some 'official' backports in the future, which would be nice, but I don't think it's possible to make all packages from backports.org 'official'. We would need security support (which is currently done by upgrading the backport when a new version of the package hits unstable), and we have to take care of packages which depends on a backport (that's why there's no official firefox 1.5 backport[0] for Ubuntu). Norbert [0]: http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-backports/2005-December/000550.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
