Hi, I'd advise against more than one version, that'll make you support two versions with very limited upstream support. Do ship the one you're comfortable with supporting until etch+1 and security supporting somewhat longer largely by yourself: Upstream will tell you 'not to use beta software' for the new one and that 'you should upgrade from the "way old and bitrotten" version' for the old one.[1]
Having beta software in stable is a major headache (ha!) for all parties involved (I've seen something like that with phpGroupWare/woody.), so I'd vote for the old version over the new. As a third option - and this is no joke - you could[2] consider to ship none at all (have an external repo or somesuch). I did opt against AqBanking support for sarge (and am very glad I made the right choice with that) and most users are happy with the repository of backports maintained on alioth by Micha Lenk. As much as we wish to provide users with software in Debian, sometimes, this is not the ideal way of doing things. Kind regards T. 1. And there is nothing wrong with that, either. 2. And indeed, please do consider this seriously. It's OK if you decide to ship a version with stable, but do ship great software and not just the version that is available at freeze time that sucks the least. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
