[EMBOSS] possibility of packages for Debian Etch.

[Charles Plessy]

Le Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 04:06:16PM +0200, Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio a écrit :
> hi,
> there is an emboss 5.0 package in debian sid.
> 
> Actually, this would work only for Debian Sid, but I believe the
> package will be included also in Ubuntu 7/10 and in debian etch in the
> short time.

Dear Giovanni,

Because Debian Etch is the stable version, it does not receive new
packages unless they fix security issues or grave bugs. The emboss
package for Debian will never be part of Etch nor its updates.

However, some Debian developpers provides a separate repository in which
only official developers upload recent packages recompiled for Etch. The
site is called backports.org.

If you or another reader is interested, we can prepare such a backport
for Etch.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian-Med packaging team
Wako, Saitama, Japan