Backports procedures & Discussion

[Shot - Piotr Szotkowski]

Hello.

Martin Meredith:

> I think we're pretty much agreed on the process of how backports will
> be done, that they will be automatically backported from breezy (or
> current distro +1) and if they do not build from scratch, the changes
> to make them do so will have to be made and put into breezy, so that
> the backport will build from breezy.

Two questions, if I may:

1. Are archive.ubuntu.com's hoary-backports planned to replace
the Ubuntu Backports Project (http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/)?

2. Given the above rule (backports only from Breezy packages) - does
this mean that there will be no backports of upstream-current versions
of packages between Upstream Version Freeze and creation of Perky
(Breezy+1) repositories?

Example - the wesnoth package. Hoary: 0.8.11-1, UBP: 0.9.1-1~5.04ubp1,
Breezy: 0.9.3-1. If upstream were to release 0.9.4 tomorrow, will the
users have to wait till late October for it to get into hoary-backports
(or breezy-backports by then)?

(I'm not judging this policy in any way, just wondering whether I get
the general idea right. At least in wesnoth's case there's always the
route of getting Debian sid's .deb, and if this doesn't work - to get
Debian sid's source and rebuild that locally.)

Cheers,
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