On supporting fast moving target packages (antispam, etc.)

Ewan Mac Mahon ewan at macmahon.me.uk
Thu Aug 11 13:39:57 CDT 2005


On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:30:40AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi jorge!
> 
> jorge o. castro [2005-08-10  0:48 -0400]:
> > As far as I know, there is a project that handles this for Debian,
> > http://volatile.debian.net/, but I am unfamiliar with it and its
> > quality.
> 
> We now officially support the Ubuntu backports project which
> frequently provides interesting packages from the development release
> for the latest stable one. I think this suits perfectly to handle
> this use case as well.

The advantage of separating them out in some way is that people can opt
to have updates of just the volatile components without either pulling
in everything else that is newer in backports or having fun with
pinning.

Ewan
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