On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 09:43 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Potential problem with moved packages: A package moved into Core
> cannot be updated in Extras for older distributions, because that would
> violate the upgrade path.
... only unless the Extras and Core maintainers talk to each other -- if
they do, they can easily sort things out between themselves. This is
actually an argument in favour of "Core maintainer == Extras
maintainer" (barring certain mental sanity issues which are out of scope
for this posting).
Nils
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