[Hamara-devel] apt-add-repository

[Vikas Tara]

On 21/04/15 21:07, shirish wrote:
> in-line :-
>
> On 04/21/2015 05:20 AM, shirish wrote:
>
> <snipped>
>>  See http://bugs.debian.org/783037
>
> Surprise, Surprise, the maintainer answered in/around 30 minutes 
> although sadly I got to see his reply now.
>
> As shared by him, the kodi package (with the name change and some 
> changes) is already in the ftp-master 'NEW' queue.
>
> AFAIK  all the repos. within Debian would be frozen till 25th 
> day/night till Jessie is not released. Also once the floodgates open 
> there would be lot of lot of stuff in NEW that the ftp-masters would 
> have to process so in that when kodi's number will come is not known.
>
> What is good news for us is that the initial packaging is all done and 
> hence the source packages are available to us or nearly available to 
> us (shouldn't be much of a problem getting that version). The real 
> problem would be though if we want a newer version than that as then 
> we would have to patch it.
>
OK - that solves the xbmc issue then - I think we would pull in newer 
releases of well known / well used packages than are in debian stable - 
do you agree?
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