Things we ought to do to improve our packaging

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 08:03 +0100, Javi Merino wrote:

>   You're not the first
> upstream complaining about this and I can certainly understand why.  I
> think the best solution is to end up with something like what the
> mozilla guys did: an unofficial (according to Debian) repository[0]
> that has the latest and greatest versions of mozilla packages.  That
> way people that want the latest versions as soon as possible can add
> that repository.  The rest of the Debian users will get them from the
> official Debian repositories with its usual lag but being (in theory)
> more stable.

This is more or less what I had in mind, plus targeting stable and
oldstable.

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