Re: support for older distributions

2001-05-09 Thread Brian May
Craig == Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Craig debian provides mechanisms for easy upgrade between release Craig versions, and we always have provided that - why complicate Craig matters with branched sub-releases of old versions? You say stable is old. That is exactly

Re: support for older distributions

2001-05-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 09 May 2001 02:32, Craig Sanders wrote: Currently there are two usable repositories of Potato packages. There's a repository of kernel-related packages to run 2.4.x kernels on Potato, and there's a repository of LDAP related packages and other things that Wichert is

Re: support for older distributions

2001-05-09 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:49:04PM +1000, Brian May wrote: You say stable is old. That is exactly Russell's point. Some people want a mostly stable system, but need some up-to-date packages from woody. that's a choice people have to make. you can have an old 'stable' release, or you can have

Re: support for older distributions

2001-05-09 Thread Brian May
Craig == Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Craig why is application bar any *more* reliable or trustworthy Craig just because it is compiled against an old version of libc6 Craig in potato? It is not so much the new application I was thinking of, but all the old stable

Re: support for older distributions

2001-05-09 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:36:30PM +1000, Brian May wrote: Craig == Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Craig why is application bar any *more* reliable or trustworthy Craig just because it is compiled against an old version of libc6 Craig in potato? It is not so much the

Re: support for older distributions

2001-05-08 Thread Brian May
Russell == Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell I would like a version of Potato that is not entirely Russell frozen. It should have updates not only for security Russell reasons but also for addition of new programs, and for Russell adding new programs which add

Re: support for older distributions

2001-05-08 Thread Brian May
Russell == Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell To manage this fully through the Debian system we will Russell need support in the BTS for reporting bugs to different Russell people depending on the package version. Is this Russell possible? Another problem which I

Re: support for older distributions

2001-05-08 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday 08 May 2001 01:28, Chad C. Walstrom wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 02:45:53PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: I would like a version of potato that is not entirely frozen. ... I am willing to be involved in back-porting packages (there's many things that I back-port for my own use

Re: support for older distributions

2001-05-08 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Russell Coker wrote: But if someone is willing to back-port a package, and to maintain it (fixing any bugs that may be reported against it), then why not make room on the archives for it? Would there be any problem to just set up your own Debian-style site with BTS and

Re: support for older distributions

2001-05-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 02:45:53PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: Currently there are two usable repositories of Potato packages. There's a repository of kernel-related packages to run 2.4.x kernels on Potato, and there's a repository of LDAP related packages and other things that Wichert is

Re: support for older distributions

2001-05-08 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 8 May 2001, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: Would there be any problem to just set up your own Debian-style site with BTS and apt-able archive, where people can contribute if they want and where you can semi-automatical merge in upstream (here Debian) updates (mostly critical bugs and

support for older distributions

2001-05-07 Thread Russell Coker
Currently there are two usable repositories of Potato packages. There's a repository of kernel-related packages to run 2.4.x kernels on Potato, and there's a repository of LDAP related packages and other things that Wichert is maintaining. Both of these are good work, but even combined they

Re: support for older distributions

2001-05-07 Thread Ian Eure
i have libssl openssh 2.5.2p2 for potato at http://people.debian.org/~ieure/potato_ssh On Mon, 7 May 2001, Russell Coker wrote: Currently there are two usable repositories of Potato packages. There's a repository of kernel-related packages to run 2.4.x kernels on Potato, and there's a

Re: support for older distributions

2001-05-07 Thread Chad C. Walstrom
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 02:45:53PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: I would like a version of potato that is not entirely frozen. ... I am willing to be involved in back-porting packages (there's many things that I back-port for my own use and should share). ... Also we have to consider the

Re: support for older distributions

2001-05-07 Thread Kenshi Muto
Hi, At Mon, 7 May 2001 09:51:24 -0700 (PDT), Ian Eure wrote: i have libssl openssh 2.5.2p2 for potato at http://people.debian.org/~ieure/potato_ssh Good job. If you execute 'dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9 Packages.gz' in this directory, we'll be more happy :-) -- Kenshi Muto [EMAIL