Christian Ohm schreef: > On Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 2:00, Giel van Schijndel wrote: >> Paul Wise schreef: >>> On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 01:15 +0200, Giel van Schijndel wrote: >>>> Any thoughts on this? >>> Another beta might be a good idea, if it is done quickly. >>> >>> Also, when the final release is done, we can put a warzone2100 backport >>> on backports.org for lenny users to upgrade to. Many people don't know >>> about backports.org though, so that might become a support issue/FAQ for >>> the warzone devs. >> To all devs (with or without commit access): I would really like this to >> be an "active" decision on our part, as opposed to a "passive" one, >> where we allow the decision to be made for us due to time passing. I.e. >> either we decide that we do want our current state of 2.1 to be included > > I think that is the problem. If 2.1 is included in stable now, it will > stay at the version included at freeze time, whatever that will be (if I > remember the policy correctly). There is debian-volatile for > fast-changing packages, though the descriptions only talks about things > like virus scanners or spam filters, I don't know if games are accepted > there, and I don't know how many people know about it (possibly even > less than backports). > > So is whatever will be available at freeze time suitable to be included > in a stable distribution for over a year? > >> in Debian's next stable release, or we decide that we don't want that to >> happen. As long as that decision is an active one, I can live with both. > > Well, if it can be updated (which I doubt, but I could be wrong), then > I'm ok with including it, but if it cannot, then backports sounds like > the better plan to me.
AFAIK the package can *not* receive any updates once it enters stable. Apart from security fixes that is. But I'm pretty sure that, warzone being a game and all, isn't eligible for security updates. @Paul: can you confirm or deny this? -- Giel
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