Re: Debian sucks // Ion may become (DFSG-) "non-free"

Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ion.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2007-03-06, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy-wMUr/[email protected]> wrote:
> Your first reference (the Debian bugreport) seems to have been updated
> in between. The bug is now "serious", and I think this means the
> package will be removed from testing (and therefore the future stable)
> after some time unless someone closes the bug (2 weeks IIRC).

Yes, my flame and extortion campaign has beared fruit :). Maybe.

> That seems to be a good solution: people using unstable can use a
> reasonably recent snapshot, and this eliminates the worst-case senario
> of someone complaining about broken Xinarema in 200612xx in 2010.

And there's always backports.org... the use of which is, however, too
poorly documented; and when I asked around, nobody seemed to know to
automate updates from there (for only the packages specifically 
installed from there).

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Tuomo
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