Backporting packages to older distros

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 14:44 +0000, Jose Pedro Oliveira wrote:
> > I see that perl-String-CRC32 was added to rawhide yesterday;

> > Obviously I won't need to introduce it on the devel branch but
> > I'd like to have it on the FC-4 branch. What's the procedure for doing
> > this? Introduce the package as normal, then request the FC-4 branch and
> > removal of the devel branch on the Extras/CVSSync Needed page?
> 
> Sounds right but with one limitation you have to keep FC-4 RPM
> E:NVR less or equal than the one in Core in order to avoid upgrade problems.
Another limitation is bugzilla ownership.

Ralf