* Jesus Climent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030723 18:50]: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 04:45:54PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > That applies to data-files (or very similar things) like spamassasin. > > There should be in the README.Debian given a location for the backport > > by the maintainer.
> Spamassassin needs more than data files, since the rules relay on funtions > only available in the new spamassassin perl modules, so a backport is a hell > lot of a backport, if even can be called like that since in most cases is a > complete rewrite. I spoke of "functional data-files", that means: packages where the package has not (only) code, but much of the value is data. At spamassasin this _is_ the case with the spam-detecting-code. _If_ the maintainer thinks he should giv woody-users regulary a new version of this package, than he should be able to do this (e.g. via a line in the README-file). This doesn't break anything, and users using this package (should) know that they're leaving the guarded place of debian stable. But I want to emphasize that getting nearer a new stable release would be much better than discussion how to allow users to use updated applications in stable. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C
