Is backports dead?

[8FootSativa]

I haven't seen a package backported in weeks!

[rudiz]

There is an official backports source for Hoary now...from Ubuntu:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted

[rpgcyco]

Even still, there has not been any new backports for a while.

- Rpg Cyco

[rudiz]

I got FF-1.06 from this source and some other thing.

Do u have used sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade

[rpgcyco]

Firefox 1.0.6 was backported almost a month ago, though. :)

- Rpg Cyco

[GeneralZod]

I obviously don't know for sure, but I'm guessing jdong is busy with some other projects as he has only posted to the Ubuntu forums a handful of times in the last 3 weeks or so, whereas before that it was a few posts per day.

I keep very close tabs on him, as you can see ;)

[rudiz]

Look here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=52168&highlight=hoary-backports

[manicka]

I obviously don't know for sure, but I'm guessing jdong is busy with some other projects as he has only posted to the Ubuntu forums a handful of times in the last 3 weeks or so, whereas before that it was a few posts per day.

I keep very close tabs on him, as you can see ;)
jdong's been playing with opensuse lately. I hope this doesn't mean his support of backports will fade away.
Backports is one of the best things about Ubuntu.

[AndyAWS]

Yes, it seems like since it went "official" it has slowed down quite a bit, probably due to the restrictions that come with being "official".

As a side note, I did get some backport updates this weekend, mainly to Gnome Office 'Planner' however they are uninstallable due to the wrong version of some library that I can't recall at the moment. It was late last night and I usually give problems like that a couple days to see if they get fixed.