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On 04/12/2011 11:37 PM, Usama Akkad wrote:<br>
<span style="white-space: pre;">>> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at
5:40 PM, Scott Kitterman <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ubuntu@kitterman.com"><ubuntu@kitterman.com></a> wrote:<br>
>>> On Saturday, October 30, 2010 02:35:21 pm Usama
Akkad wrote:<br>
>>>> Wa alaikum alsalam,<br>
>>>> Bilal this is different from backports. for
example Filezilla and Deluge<br>
>>>> have no problem have more recent release on
windows than Linux. You<br>
>>>> already trust the developers of such
applications. Why not help them<br>
>>>> reach the users directly under your supervision
as Ubuntu.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> You might say any one can create such a repo.
Yes but it would hardly be<br>
>>>> in the Ubuntu way.<br>
>>><br>
>>> We had some sessions on this at UDS and are working
to make the path smoother<br>
>>> for upstreams to get new versions of existing
packages to users more quickly<br>
>>> nad easily via adjustments to the Backports
Project. So this is exactly<br>
>>> backports.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Scott K<br>
> Hi again,<br>
> Is there any progress on this subject? Where we can read
more about<br>
> your work on adjusting the Backports Project?<br>
><br>
> I want to have firefox 4 on Lucid which I'm planing to keep
till 2013<br>
> and there is many other software that some one could update
safely<br>
> Thanks,<br>
><br>
> Decentralized Ubuntu Repository Draft<br>
>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/damascene/Decentralized%20Ubuntu%20Repository">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/damascene/Decentralized%20Ubuntu%20Repository</a><br>
></span><br>
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You can get the latest Firefox stable release here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable">https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable</a><br>
We'll upgrade Lucid to whichever Firefox is current when its
version's<br>
branch (3.6) is EOL.<br>
<br>
Micah<br>
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