Why individual package repositories?

[Donatas G.]

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Ylan Segal wrote:

> Assuming the above is correct, then why were the new kde version and
> amarok released on their own repositories instead of backports?
> 
> I think I am missing part of the picture, being new to (k)ubuntu and all.

I guess those packages are in their separate repositories and not in
backports since backports repo is for packages, that have been
"backported" to the stable ubuntu from the development version. First
they have to be in the development version, tested there, and then
backported. But the developers of Amarok want to make their packages
available asap, so they do not go through the process of backporting,
they just make debs for the stable version.

Donatas
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