Bug#451258: Possible to backport to squeeze?

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Samstag, den 16.10.2010, 13:21 +0200 schrieb Vincent Fourmond:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> wrote:
> > I’m bitten by this bug on a debian lenny+backports installation. And I
> > really want to avoid installing software from experimental... :-)
> >
> > Any chance that this bug fix can be backported to squeeze?
> 
>   It's too late for backporting a fix like this from experimental to
> squeeze at this point, I don't think it would make it through the
> release team, and I would have very little arguments to give.

Fair enough.

> However,
> I'm willing to upload a backport of 1.0 to squeeze-backports, should
> it be necessary. (but I saw you were responsible for the lenny
> backports; would you keep on going with them for squeeze ?)

I don’t mind. As a matter of fact, I already built it for lenny:
http://people.debian.org/~nomeata/fop-lenny/

For it to be accepted in squeeze-backports it would have migrate to
testing after the squeeze release first, though.

>   As of now, fop 1.0 is in experimental to avoid potentially
> disturbing package builds, but I don't really think it more unstable
> than the current testing/unstable version.

Good to know, as it is now installed on the production machine.

Thanks,
Joachim

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