banshee backport (some questions)

Hey, go right ahead. Whatever gets people better banshee :)


Thanks.

On 11/13/05, Stephan Hermann <sh at sourcecode.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> to make a long story short...
>
> would it be ok, to use breezy updates for this?
>
> I mean, if it's in universe, we (MOTU) can handle this...obviously it
> should be done by someone who has the right mono knowledge.
>
> regards,
>
> \sh
>
> On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 19:25 +0100, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> > On So, 2005-11-13 at 19:05 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > > It was imo just a matter of time when this problem would arise. The
> > > fact is that we agreed that time that official backports are really
> > > just recompilation of sources from the development branch. So if you
> > > really want to have 'real' maintainer uploads to -backports, I'd
> > > suggest working on a well written spec describing a clear policy what
> > > is to be done when doing these uploads. This spec/proposal would
> > > definitely need blessing from the technical board again.
> >
> > Yes, that would be necessary in that case... but I don't care enough to
> > write such spec... maybe jdong wants to ;)
> >
> > But I've talked to tseng and we came to the conclusion that it won't
> > hurt to backport the complete mono stack... if it's done right! and not
> > now but when we got all the latest stuff working together
> >
> > > Until this happens, I see no other choice than providing selected
> > > packages in personal package archives. This would mean dubious 3rd
> > > party archives again and the resulting problems with supporting our
> > > users. :(
> >
> > There already exist such 3rd party repos that have latest banshee and
> > dependencies
> >
> > > > Or I could upload a stripped ipod-sharp to dapper, this one gets
> > > > backported and I add monodoc support again. But this seems to be
> > > > braindead to me... and I won't like to do it
> > >
> > > what would you do when you need to update the package in
> > > breezy-backports again? Imo this would be a nightmare, please don't.
> >
> > Don't worry... I'm not planning something that evil :)
> >
> > Bye
>
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