Re: Debian sucks // Ion may become (DFSG-) "non-free"
Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]>
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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). -- Tuomo