Sarge Backport

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Fri Mar 10 23:38:39 UTC 2006


On Thu, 09 Mar 2006, Sven Mueller wrote:
> Benjamin Seidenberg wrote on 09/03/2006 21:31:
> > Well, now that we're in testing (hu-rah!), we are eligible to have cyrus 
> > 2.2 hosted on backports.org. I talked to nobse earlier, and he said 
> > there shouldn't be a problem with it. Henrique: you're apparently 
> > already in the key, so if we decide to go ahead and upload, can you do 
> > that for us?
> > Everyone else: Should we upload to backports.org? I see no reason not 
> > to, and it's very obvious why we should, so I vote yes.
> 
> I second the proposal. Actually that's one of the reasons for the sarge
> branch in the SVN. That branch recent relative to /trunk, so if we want
> to upload the backport to backports.org, we might need to also do an
> upload to sid. Seeing how small the differences are, however, I would
> not mind uploading the sarge branch as-is.

Please keep it in sync with sid, and note in the backports changelog which
Sid version it is based on.  This kind of simple book-keeping can help us
later on.  Even if the bpo requirements for version naming carries that
information indirectly, it helps to avoid mistakes.

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  Henrique Holschuh



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