On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:13:26 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 25 Sep 2011 at 13:45:42 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > >> I've always wondered why Mozilla products are not integrated into >> "squeeze-updates" (the old "volatile" repo), it seems to fit perfectly >> there :-? > > Not quite the perfect fit for inclusion as you might think: > > This suite will contain updates that satisfy one of the following > criteria: > > * The update is urgent and not of a security nature. Security > updates > will continue to be pushed through the security archive. Examples > include packages broken by the flow of time (c.f. spamassassin and > the year 2010 problem) and fixes for bugs introduced by point > releases. > * The package in question is a data package and the data must be > updated > in a timely manner (e.g. tzdata). > * Fixes to leaf packages that were broken by external changes (e.g. > video downloading tools and tor). > * Packages that need to be current to be useful (e.g. clamav).
Yes, I already read that announcement message and that's why I find it very appropriate, specially for points 1) and 4). A very different thing is the limitation Sven has pointed out: if the packages are not able to be compiled for all of the architectures and "squeeze-updates" packages are going to be part of the "point" releases then it makes more sense to keep these packages out of that tree. P.S. I'm runnig a 64-bits lenny -yes, still- and had to get the upstream mozilla packages because they are not updated anymore in Debian (fair) but I had no incompatibility issues despite I'm running very old versions of gtk and other libraries that Firefox needs and true is that I expected complaints at install time... hopefully there were none. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.09.25.15.44...@gmail.com
