[rt-users] RT 3.8.2 packages for Debian Lenny?

[Martin Maurer]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dominic Hargreaves [mailto:dominic.hargreaves at oucs.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: Donnerstag, 02. April 2009 15:59
> To: Tim Cutts
> Cc: Martin Maurer; rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] RT 3.8.2 packages for Debian Lenny?
> 
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 07:22:30AM +0100, Tim Cutts wrote:
> >
> > On 31 Mar 2009, at 8:23 am, Martin Maurer wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Dominic,
> >>
> >> Thanks for this, I see the 3.8.2 packages are already in unstable AND
> >> testing - but what about the original discussed idea to have an extra
> >> repo with rt 3.8.x for Lenny?
> >
> > ... or possibly get the packages uploaded to lenny-backports, might be
> a
> > better solution.
> 
> It's not a valid upload candidate for lenny-backports, since the version
> in testing/unstable does not require rebuilding to work on lenny.
> 
> The normal way of handling these cases would be to add, for example,
> testing or unstable APT lines, with appropriate package pinning to
> avoid pulling anything except the required packages, or to put packages
> in a site-local repository.
> 
> The last time this was discussed Martin was keen to provide a repository
> with just the request-tracker3.8 package and dependencies not satisfied
> in lenny, but I'm still in two minds about whether this is worth the
> extra work. I certainly don't have a use case for it (since we already
> have our own private apt repositories for local builds).
> 
> Martin, could you think again about whether you are able to get by with
> the
> appropriate package pinning?

Thanks, I will test this and give feedback.

Br, Martin