Neil, I agree on all what you said (eg: difficulties in doing such a maintenance, the fact we don't have unlimited manpower, etc.), but I'm still convince it would be worth a try.
On 01/06/2013 04:39 AM, Neil Williams wrote: > It's not about prohibiting updates, it's that most maintainers don't > have time to support deprecated versions. How about allowing anyone to work on any package in very-old-stable? This might work at least for a few key packages, which some users badly need. For example, I'd like to provide backports for bind if it has a major hole (probably, I will care less about things I don't use (yet) like DNSSEC, but I don't see this as an issue). It's probable that others will want to updates for apache, postfix, and stuff like that as well. Anyone maintaining a large amount of servers will see value in this (eg: better than nothing). (My own target would be servers, not desktops) The idea isn't to keep quality as high as we have for stable or old-stable. The idea isn't to keep the same maintenance rules either. It's about allowing what can be done to happen. Please don't do again a very discouraging negative post. Thomas -- 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/50e9119a.8040...@debian.org
