[maemo-community] to all who has root access on garage

[From: Ed Bartosh]

2009/7/25 Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah at jeremiahfoster.com>:
>
> On Jul 25, 2009, at 17:40, Ed Bartosh wrote:
>
>> 2009/7/25 Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah at jeremiahfoster.com>:
>>>
>>> Currently garage is running etch. This is going to cause continued
>>> conflict with packages which are being built on lenny.
>>
>> I'd not call installation lenny packages on etch right thing to do.
>> Using backports/rebuild lenny packages on etch or better upgrade
>> system to lenny are the obvious choices, I believe.
>
> I agree, upgrading the server to lenny I think would be a good idea.
> I think we have to take into account that developers running fremantle
> are advised to run the SDK under lenny, so packages are being built on
> lenny for the device.
I can't see how this is related to the topic, sorry. Packages are
built under scratchbox, in isolated environment and that environment
has nothing to do with the version of Debian on garage. We even don't
have scratchbox installed there.

> Very few debian servers in the world are still
> running etch
I don't think it's true. I know several servers which are still running sarge :)

> and debian is designed to support stable, i.e. lenny, so
> it might be time to upgrade.
>
Agree about time to upgrade, but it's usually not that easy to upgrade
several years old actively used system. May be that's the reason why
it's still on etch.

-- 
BR,
Ed