On 03.07.2015 12:16, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
Why should package submission be optional, why not take everything that is in Factory and not yet in:42? It has always been the deal that by submitting a package to Factory one implicitly agrees to maitain it for supported releases as well. In the past releases also were maintained for
Because 42 is not Factory and sometimes it needs porting and testing.
longer, after that the Evergreen approach also worked well for 11.4. Why should that be any different now? Having both less drivers and less packages just makes it less and less attractive. If you want to spend time on bringing more of Factory to 42, you're invited to do so.
And remember 42 is maintained for longer, so if the software is already out of maintenance now, better don't submit it.
How's that any different from the situation we had with Evergreen? And sooner or later you'll run into the issue anyway that you can't update to the latest KDE, GNOME, Xfce because systemd, upower, GTK, Qt etc. are too old.
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