Re: [Cooker] Re: [RPM] cooker contrib/release referencer-1.1.3-1mdv2009.0

[Charles A Edwards]

On Wed, 28 May 2008 14:39:57 -0700
Adam Williamson wrote:

> > (Is there any policy or does there exist some list of packages we
> > generally (should) backport, or is this more or less up to the
> > maintainer's liking?  
> 
> No policy, it's up to the maintainer. It's also quite common for one
> person to backport someone else's package, which of course should make
> them 'responsible' for the backport, not the original packager.


Not as to what should be backported.

But as a general policy libraries Should Not be backported.


    Charles

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