vlc and mplayer gtk2 version

leon sdl.web at gmail.com
Fri Dec 23 10:59:43 GMT 2005


Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> writes:

 | 
 | Maintaining a repository does require some packaging skills. We MOTUs
 | are really busy enough with working on dapper, so we cannot continue
 | maintaining breezy other than security and very important updates. The
 | backport team in fact requests recompiles of sources in dapper in
 | breezy. We MOTUs try to make their lives not harder than necessary,
 | but often it's not possible to prepare the source so that it will
 | build in both dapper and breezy.
 | 
 | Perhaps some day, when we have enough MOTUs, we can reconsider
 | creating a team, which continues actively supporting older releases
 | (what you actually request). Currently, given the current number of
 | MOTUs, this is not an option at all. Sorry.

Understand. Actuall Ubuntu's 6 month cycle is not that long :-) We could
wait for the next release.

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