<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/25/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Reinhard Tartler</b> <<a href="mailto:siretart@gmail.com">siretart@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 9/25/05, John Dong <<a href="mailto:john.dong@gmail.com">john.dong@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> It certainly did happen, ogra. It's just that there are still a significant<br>> number of packages that didn't pass the more rigorous requirements imposed
<br>> by the movement to official, and we still have to provide support for those<br>> in Hoary's world.<br><br>Which more rigorous requirements?</blockquote><div><br>
Some packages were illegitimately backported along with libraries from
Breezy (while others seemingly depended on gcc4), and it made sense at
the time.<br>
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These are packages that I'm not interested in transitioning to official Hoary backports. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">btw, on <a href="http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/">http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/
</a>, there is still no word<br>about the official archive. Many people are out there and still using<br>that old archive, without even knowing that using them will cause<br>severe upgrade issues.</blockquote><div>Sorry; I haven't had the chance to update that information. I'll do so later today.
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As far as old archive having "severe upgrade issues", I disagree. I
have personally made sure that there are no upgrade issues with these
packages -- they all upgrade cleanly to Breezy.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">If you have problems bringing some packages into hoary-backports on<br><a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com">
archive.ubuntu.com</a>, why didn't you ask for help? I, and many other<br>motus would be more than happy to offer help.</blockquote><div><br>
I know, and thanks for your help. You guys have been extremely helpful
to the Backports team. These are packages that I didn't find worthwhile
to redo. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Please make a list of packages which need to be processed and what<br>other things are left to do in order to finally shut down
<br><a href="http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/">http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/</a> and redirect people to the official<br>backports directories.</blockquote><div><br>
I'll look over the repository again, and see if anything else needs to be merged into official hoary-backports.<br>
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