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redlabour
July 20th, 2005, 03:45 AM
Hi,

what are the rules after a posted Package is coming to the Backports ?

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=79

Timeschedule and Replys ?
Juergen
July 20th, 2005, 06:26 AM
I'd think if and when one of the backporters has time and likes a particular app, (s)he starts to work on packaging it.
Real backports, that is packages that are in Breezy and 'just' need to be recompiled, should go faster than stuff that needs a complete new package to be built.

Your flooding of the forum for sure gives them work for several months. ;-)

And BTW: From the answers to some of your requests it seems that some of your 'must have's are 'no no's to others.
So perhaps you should start your own, unofficial, repository.
redlabour
July 20th, 2005, 07:04 AM
I'd think if and when one of the backporters has time and likes a particular app, (s)he starts to work on packaging it.
Real backports, that is packages that are in Breezy and 'just' need to be recompiled, should go faster than stuff that needs a complete new package to be built.

Your flooding of the forum for sure gives them work for several months. ;-)

And BTW: From the answers to some of your requests it seems that some of your 'must have's are 'no no's to others.
So perhaps you should start your own, unofficial, repository.

That´s the Problem - i like too sure, but i have a own Project (not IT !) that needs my full Time (see it in my Signature).

Grüsse nach Frankfurt. ;)
Seth
July 20th, 2005, 02:42 PM
That´s the Problem - i like too sure, but i have a own Project (not IT !) that needs my full Time (see it in my Signature).

Grüsse nach Frankfurt. ;)
None of your requests will ever be done b/c they are not in Breezy.

Also many of your requests are "non-free" applications that could not be included in a free distro like Ubuntu anyways.
redlabour
July 20th, 2005, 03:30 PM
None of your requests will ever be done b/c they are not in Breezy.

Also many of your requests are "non-free" applications that could not be included in a free distro like Ubuntu anyways.
Only 3 of them. Panda, O&O and FreeAV.

Hmmmm...can you tell me again why the nVidia-GLX, Acrobat Reader , RealPlayer are in the Official Repisitories ? They are "non-free" .
patrickslee
July 20th, 2005, 06:37 PM
Hmmmm...can you tell me again why the nVidia-GLX, Acrobat Reader , RealPlayer are in the Official Repisitories ? They are "non-free" .
No no no, they are *FREE* of charge.
Velvet Elvis
July 20th, 2005, 09:48 PM
Only 3 of them. Panda, O&O and FreeAV.

Hmmmm...can you tell me again why the nVidia-GLX, Acrobat Reader , RealPlayer are in the Official Repisitories ? They are "non-free" .

Based on the link in your sig, you should have a healthy respect for the communitarian ideals of the free software movement once you understand it:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_3/soderberg/