[braindump] ppa update discontents

Gary van der Merwe garyvdm at gmail.com
Sat Aug 21 17:52:12 BST 2010


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On 20/08/2010 23:24, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Friday, August 20, 2010 04:47:11 am Martin Pool wrote:
>> Maverick's bzr has its copy of python-configobj cut out, but that
>> library is not shipped on hardy.  Dealing with things like this make
>> me wonder a lot whether it's a good use of time to keep supporting
>> many old platforms.
> 
> A non-UDD solution to this particular problem is to ask to have the package 
> backported and then use backports in the PPA.
> 
> Scott K

As a non ubuntu dev/motu, this solution requires me to rely on other
people. While ubuntu dev/motu's are normally very responsive, having to
ask someone else to backport the packages makes me a bit uncomfortable,
and also adds a lot of lag.

Gary

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