On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:20:13PM -0400, John Fleming wrote: > Obvious noob question - What is the difference for a Sarge user, between > Debian volatile vs backports for things like clamav and spamassassin? Volatile is for packages which have a constant flow of changes like clamav for example. The version of clamav shipped with Debian/sarge is unable to work with the current signature format. Adding a new package to volatile requires that there is a reason to do so and kind of strong QA you've to pass.
Uploading a package to backports.org only requires that the package is in Debian/testing and that you've repackaged it as a backport (lowering the version number and a few other things). Ok you need to find a sponsor for your package when you're not a DD with yout gpg key in the keyring but that's not a huge problem. So rule of thumb is that everything that can't hide long enough can be packaged for backports.org. HTH Sven -- If you won't forgive me the rest of my life Let me apologize while I'm still alive I know it's time to face all of my past mistakes [Less than Jake - Rest Of My Life] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
