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[Sergio Schvezov <sergio.schvezov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On jueves 3 de julio de 2014 10h'24:51 ART, Loïc Minier wrote:
> Well, that should all be in the chroot; that is, if you're 
> creating Click packages against the latest frameworks from a LTS 
> host, you need an up-to-date Click, probably debootstrap, and 
> then an up-to-date click chroot of utopic. Click is fairly 
> stable and low on dependencies though, so I dont expect much 
> more has to be backported. Backports / PPA are for the rare case 
> where we're updating packages in some touch-stable series 
> (stable in the sense of the system-image channel).

This brings in another question; why do opt for debootstrapping a chroot 
intead of just downloading a tarball for it? It can 'sort' of make sense in 
the dev versions, but not in a released framework where there is no real 
change.

I will even go as far to say that even the dev ones should be a static 
tarball; we will start catching ABI/API breakage much faster this way too.

Cheers
Sergio.