Backporting packages to older distros
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Wed Dec 21 16:19:33 UTC 2005
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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.
Would that actually be a problem? Couldn't there be a different owner
for the Extras package and the Core package - aren't they separate
components as far as bugzilla is concerned?
Paul.
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