Closure of buster-backports (WAS Re: buster-10-backports: I need backported network-manager for buster ASAP.)

2023-03-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 01:55:28PM +0300, ijaaskelai...@outlook.com wrote: > I absolutely need my Broadcom b43 to be the most advanced "device" in > my home country and for my home country. And for the EU, get the point? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B43 > > Kind regards, Ilari Jääskeläinen.

Re: Closure of buster-backports (WAS Re: buster-10-backports: I need backported network-manager for buster ASAP.)

2023-03-26 Thread ijaaskelainen
Thank you for your reply again. I can also build it from source. The HP MINI 10.1" INTEL ATOM N450 battery completely died two days ago so I could not use it instantly anyway since the laptop does not boot now. I wanted it fast-track , faster than I could get the dependencies. I propably run online

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-03-26 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 04 Mar 2023 at 07:25PM +02, Adrian Bunk wrote: > for the contents of packages in the archive the ftp team requires that > everything is in the preferred form of modification. > > It is therefore surprising that you as member of the ftp team declare > that there is no requirement at

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-03-26 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 04 Mar 2023 at 10:58PM +01, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 16792 March 1977, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >> for the contents of packages in the archive the ftp team requires that >> everything is in the preferred form of modification. > > Yes. Of course. > > But git or svn or even sccs and rcs

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-03-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
Sean Whitton wrote: > >On Sat 04 Mar 2023 at 10:58PM +01, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > >> On 16792 March 1977, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> >>> for the contents of packages in the archive the ftp team requires that >>> everything is in the preferred form of modification. >> >> Yes. Of course. >> >> But git or s

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-03-26 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-03-26T13:56:55-0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Sat 04 Mar 2023 at 10:58PM +01, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > But git or svn or even sccs and rcs is NOT, in any way, preferred > > for of modification. Only one way of storage and handling some > > metadata. > > This is Debian's official position,