On 7 May 2013 17:03, Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> wrote: > Now, if I had PPA, then I could follow upstream release cycles. Every 6 > months, I would destroy the PPA for OpenStack stable -2, and create a > new stable PPA. I could put all the backport software I need in there. > No need to worry anymore about the release cycles not in sync with what > we do in Debian. Since most things are Python, I could still continue to > upload the modules into SID (or Experimental during the freeze), and as > the brilliant plan for the Debian PPA will not add duplication, it will > be "for free", just giving a list of packages that I wish to import. >
In what way would this be better then using Debian Backports? Also, even if I do understand your concern, and that we should push > everyone to upload in the main repository of Debian whenever possible, > this doesn't fit all use cases. > Agreed. -- Brian May <br...@microcomaustralia.com.au>
