1.4.5 Packages

[Nicolas Lécureuil]

2007/2/6, Greg Meyer <greg at gkmweb.com>:
> On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Niklas Nylund wrote:
> > A small hint, if nothing else from a marketing stand point there
> > should be packages available when there is a new release. Right now
> > going to the homepage and clicking "Download Amarok" doesn't show any
> > links to packages for Kubuntu, openSuse, Mandrive, Gentoo or Fedora.
> > I suppose most people don't compile from source and to those people
> > might be disappointed when they come to the web page and look for the
> > new version.
> >
> > I guess it might be a bit difficult to organise this but if it isn't
> > possible there should at least be a note somewhere saying that the
> > packages are coming. Would it be better to next time give the package
> > maintainers some extra time also to make packages before announcing
> > the new version publicly?
> >
> Yes, the project does try to release in this fashion.  The packagers we know
> about are given notice ahead of time about the release so that they have time
> to build their distros's packages.  In the end though, we can't control what
> the distros do.
>
> Also, some distros don't like backporting new software into their stable tree
> and instead update their development version (think ubuntu and mandriva,
> although I think both have a backports project now).   In this case, there
> have often been community packagers that step up and provide packages, but
> not in every case.

for mandriva we will not provide official backports ( because the
maintener don't want ), but i will try to provide unofficial ones ASAP