On Monday 14 March 2005 22:37, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 20:45 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Architectures that are no longer being considered for stable releases > > are not going to be left out in the cold. > > I disagree. I feel that maintainers are going to ignore the SCC > architectures for the purposes of portability bugs and security fixes.
Then porter-NMU the package. Done correctly, this forces the maintainer to either *) override the patch again. -> tech-ctte (which should be trusted or enhanced to not be influenced by non-releasable vs releasable, but only by the technical merits of the patch) *) accept the patch -> patched *) run and hide -> still patched Regards, David -- - hallo... wie gehts heute? - *hust* gut *rotz* *keuch* - gott sei dank kommunizieren wir Ãber ein septisches medium ;) -- Matthias Leeb, Uni f. angewandte Kunst, 2005-02-15