Great, thanks for this effort! This makes Debian even more attractive :) - Sylvain
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 10:16:43PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Hash: SHA1 > > The Backports Team is pleased to announce the availability of a new > suite on backports: lenny-backports-sloppy. Please read carefully > before considering using or uploading to it what this entails. > > > The Background > ============== > > You might want to ask: What's that? Let me explain it. During the etch > release discussions popped up on the backports list with two clashing > groups: > > * One that expected to always be able to upgrade from sarge + > sarge-backports to etch without backports, > * others that wanted new versions of packages flowing in even after the > release and were happy to upgrade from sarge + sarge-backports to etch + > etch-backports. > > The standing at that time was to accept packages that were in testing > after the release, which wasn't etch anymore but lenny. > > The same discussion started again before the lenny release, and given that > we are facing the upcoming squeeze release we started internally to discuss > how to noise down these long and tedious discussions, because both groups > of people had valid opinions that shouldn't get ignored. So this is where > the idea for lenny-backports-sloppy comes from. > > > The Change > ========== > > lenny-backports-sloppy will please the group that is happy to upgrade from > lenny + lenny-backports to squeeze + squeeze-backports. lenny-backports is > meant only for packages from squeeze, even after the release. Technically > that means it will get locked down for uploads after the release of squeeze > and require manual approval (for e.g. point release update versions, or > security updates that happen during the squeeze release cycle), while > lenny-backports-sloppy will accept packages from wheezy. Uploading to > lenny-backport will have to get approved by the Debian Backports Team after > the squeeze release, just like uploads to lenny are currently approved by > the Release Team. > > While lenny-backports-sloppy is created already and working we ask you to > NOT upload packages there without prior discussion with the Backports Team. > This is meant to ensure that the Uploader is aware about the expectations > that come along with that: The package should have a good chance to get > included in the next Debian release aka wheezy, and that the Uploader is > willing to look after the package in the upcoming squeeze-backports suite > after the release of squeeze to ensure upgradeability. > > In case of questions, feel free to ask either directly on the > debian-backpo...@lists.debian.org mailinglist, or contact > t...@backports.debian.org privately. > > We are also pleased to annonce that the first upload to > lenny-backports-sloppy already happened. From now on you will be able > to install Postgresql 9.0 (which is not targeted at squeeze) from > lenny-backports-sloppy. > > > How to use > ========== > > If you want to use lenny-backports-sloppy you will have to add both > lenny-backports and lenny-backports-sloppy to your sources.list. Backports > from lenny-backports-sloppy may depend on packages in lenny-backports. > > deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports lenny-backports main > deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports lenny-backports-sloppy main > > > About Backports > =============== > > You are running Debian stable, because you prefer the stable Debian tree. > It runs great, there is just one problem: the software is a little bit > outdated compared to other distributions. That is where backports come in. > > Backports are recompiled packages from testing (mostly) and unstable (in > a few cases only, e.g. security updates), so they will run without new > libraries (wherever it is possible) on a stable Debian distribution. It is > recommended to pick out single backports which fit your needs, and not to > use all available backports. > > Thanks for reading this far, and enjoy! > Rhonda in the name of the Backports Team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101004204016.gb2...@perso.beuc.net
