On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 08:49 +0000, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:43:43 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
> The Mandriva policy is a reasonable starting point:
>
>
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/SoftwareMedia#Backports_policy
>
> it's sketchy and not greatly written, but the basic idea is that
> backports should only be 'leaf' packages (things on which nothing else
> depends) and libs required _only_ by the packages that are being
> backported. Packages on which other, unrelated packages depend shouldn't
> be backported.
Sounds like the only way to package Firefox under such a backport scheme
would be to bundle Gecko etc.
Yup. In MDV, Firefox isn't/wasn't allowed under the backports
guidelines. I think this makes sense given how important it is and how
easy it is to break other stuff by touching Firefox. Some stuff just
isn't right for a backports repo.
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