Mainstream Developers Repository

[Usama Akkad]

Hi Micah,

As I said, there is many other software that some one could update 
safely not just Firefox 4. It's not a matter of one or two Apps, please 
read the Draft
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/damascene/Decentralized%20Ubuntu%20Repository


??? ???????? 13 ?????? 2011 08:05, ??? Micah Gersten:

> Fixed top post
>
> On 04/12/2011 11:37 PM, Usama Akkad wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at
> 5:40 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
>
> >>> On Saturday, October 30, 2010 02:35:21 pm Usama
> Akkad wrote:
>
> >>>> Wa alaikum alsalam,
>
> >>>> Bilal this is different from backports. for
> example Filezilla and Deluge
>
> >>>> have no problem have more recent release on
> windows than Linux. You
>
> >>>> already trust the developers of such
> applications. Why not help them
>
> >>>> reach the users directly under your supervision
> as Ubuntu.
>
> >>>>
>
> >>>> You might say any one can create such a repo.
> Yes but it would hardly be
>
> >>>> in the Ubuntu way.
>
> >>>
>
> >>> We had some sessions on this at UDS and are working
> to make the path smoother
>
> >>> for upstreams to get new versions of existing
> packages to users more quickly
>
> >>> nad easily via adjustments to the Backports
> Project. So this is exactly
>
> >>> backports.
>
> >>>
>
> >>> Scott K
>
> > Hi again,
>
> > Is there any progress on this subject? Where we can read
> more about
>
> > your work on adjusting the Backports Project?
>
> >
>
> > I want to have firefox 4 on Lucid which I'm planing to keep
> till 2013
>
> > and there is many other software that some one could update
> safely
>
> > Thanks,
>
> >
>
> > Decentralized Ubuntu Repository Draft
>
> >
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/damascene/Decentralized%20Ubuntu%20Repository
>
> >
>
> You can get the latest Firefox stable release here:
> https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable
> We'll upgrade Lucid to whichever Firefox is current when its version's
> branch (3.6) is EOL.
>
> Micah
>

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