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Re: On packaging old versions of libraries
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Pjotr Prins |
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Re: On packaging old versions of libraries |
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Fri, 25 Aug 2017 09:07:15 +0200 |
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:06:43PM -0500, Eric Bavier wrote:
> > I'm going to look into what is required to backport, but if I decided to
> > go the first route, I would probably use Guix. Would such a
> > contribution be accepted considering it packages older libraries, which
> > would add some cruft? At the least, I would have to compile CEGUI 0.7,
> > but that might need older versions of libraries itself to compile.
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> I think this would be fine as long as there are no known security
> issues in those older libraries. The packages could even be private to
> the maryo chronicles package so that they are not available for users
> to install.
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> FWIW my kids would love to play this game too. :)
This is why we need channels.
Pj.