On 24/01/13 07:48, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Joerg Jaspert <jo...@debian.org> [2013.01.24.2017 > +1300]: >>> And say that a year later 2.3 comes out and it's the bee's >>> knees because it fully replaces 1.1 except that the >>> configuration cannot be automatically migrated, and all the >>> power users on #debian-devel persuade you to backport it, what >>> do you do? >> >> Backport it. Thats one of the points backports is for. I would >> actually ask wth 2.2 wasn't backported before. > > Because 2.0 drops a feature you need and introduces some bugs. > Also, the configuration needs a lot of manual work to > migrate.</hypothetical>
It sounds as though in this situation, you'd either want foo-1 and foo-2 to be parallel-installable (in which case they could coexist in backports), or something technically similar to an Ubuntu PPA, containing foo 1.x backports? S -- 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/51012fca.8010...@debian.org