Le Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:47:30AM +0300, Riku Voipio a écrit : > > While people want LTS, they still want latest version of various apps > they use (browser, new gcc and python for some inhouse development, etc), > as well as support for all the new hardware they buy. Solving these two > goals at the same time is tricky. We'd like to have the cake and eat it > too.
There may be some light at the end of the tunnel with two game-changing developments: - The possibility to copy packages between archives with the same interface already in use to manage DM permissions. This could be used to allow the maintainer of a package in Testing to copy it to Backports. (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/09/msg00008.html) - The transfer of a package's regression tests from the build process to the "autopkgtest" system. This would allow to frequently test that packages in Backports are working. (http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/) In my field (command-line bioinformatics), where the build dependencies are often simple and not too demanding, it think it will be straightforward to provide up-to-date backports even if the support for Stable is extended of a few years. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121013024351.gb30...@falafel.plessy.net
