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

Tuomo Valkonen schrieb am Dienstag, den 06. März 2007:

> 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).

http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions

And updates will only happen to packages installed from there. 

But you managed to lose the debian maintainer with your attitude and several
debian users. Congratulations. 

Alex