[OpenAFS] debian packages & backports

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Mon, 01 May 2006 16:33:12 -0700


Dan Pritts <danno@internet2.edu> writes:

> I suppose this really is a generic debian question, not an openafs
> question, but here goes.

> Is there some reasonable way to run debian stable (sarge) but get a
> recent and working openafs?

> It looks like backports.org has a 1.4.0-3 release, is this something
> that the official debian openafs packagers periodically put together?
> If so, is there any commitment to what level of package support there
> will be?

I'm committed to supporting the backports.org version.  Andres Solomon, I
think, was the person who did the last build, and I've been meaning to ask
him whether he wants to do the next build as well or whether he'd rather
that I maintain the backport since I'm willing to do so.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>