teTeX 3?

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Fri Sep 23 12:15:27 CDT 2005


On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:01:31AM -0500, Travis Watkins wrote:
> On 9/23/05, Shot - Piotr Szotkowski <shot at hot.pl> wrote:
> > I guess my question is more general, in fact: where is the line between
> > the packages that aren't backported (I guess glibc, kernel, some other?)
> > and the ones that get? Is the selection process automatic or manual?
> 
> The backports team (the ones behind the original backports) determine
> how well a package works on the older distro and what changes would
> have to be made to get it running (hopefully none). So picking
> packages is still done manually.

(and if I'm not mistaken, at least one version of the Breezy kernel has
already been backported to hoary-backports)

-- 
 - mdz



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