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[Aron Xu]

I think talking for a single patch is not the relevant topic in this
thread. But for amule, adding DLP to the mainstream package is not
acceptable because not all users like that function in deed.  AFAIK,
the amule project rejected that patch because they think it is not
appropriate for all users. But DLP is quite good function to make some
people who are suffering the leeching from other clients. Pushing such
a patched version - amule-dlp package - to Ubuntu is really not an
easy job.

Some packages are updating frequently and Ubuntu only ships and old
version during a support cycle. Yes, we can ask for backports, but
some people one this list can notice there was a topic talking about
"backporting is too hard", when we go through a backport procedure,
there might be several newer releases, if the upstream is really
active enough.

There is another live sample for such situation. The firefox package
in Ubuntu Lucid originally shipt 3.6.6, and when Mozilla released
3.6.7 the Ubuntu update engine got started to run, but unfortunately
there when 3.6.7 hit the archive, 3.6.8 was released a day before and
users waits for another 'long time' time to get the latest package.
Users like me are choosing Mozilla builds to avoid such situation, and
there are many others choosing Mozilla Security Team PPA. So why don't
make it an alternate for users who want to receive a more instant
update on there own risks when it is available? The users are warned,
and they like the way that ubuntu-tweak gives them some advice about
some top-used PPAs? I think letting users choose PPAs that are used by
a big amount of people is better than making them searching a PPA in
the really big capacity of the Launchpad database and choose ones that
perhaps are misleading.

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 22:39, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, August 05, 2010 10:21:41 am LI Daobing wrote:
>> it's somehow different, for example, the amule ppa shipped with
>> ubuntu-tweak has DLP function, which is important for us.
>
> Can this be added to the amule package in Ubuntu?
>
>> it also provide some snapshot version program (just like gcc-snapshot
>> which already in ubuntu).
>
> No.  gcc-snapshot is IN Ubuntu.  These PPAs are not.
>
> Scott K
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Regards,
Aron Xu