piuparts, debootstrap and newer releases

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Mon Jan 19 19:08:35 GMT 2009


On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:31:24 -0400 "Cody A.W. Somerville" 
<cody-somerville at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>
>If I'm not mistaken, I think the backports team do backport debootstrap.
> 
Yes.  I think we're a revision behind, but we generally backport deboostrap 
early to make it easy for people to work on the next release who aren't yet 
running it.

In the case of Jaunty we backport both to Intrepid and Hardy for people 
staying on an LTS release.

Scott K



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