I only want to comment about the technical side of things, not about the backport strategy. The new repositories (which Daryna already use) come with a section called "backport" which is basically meant for that. It's disabled by default.
We also have Romeo for each release so we can actually do the same as Debian and bring software to Romeo users first and then to Daryna backport users without affecting normal users (people who don't change their repositories basically).
I'll look into Gimp, Pidgin and gscan2pdf to see if we put them in there.
Clem
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oblivion02
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Re: MintBackports (Up to date software for LinuxMint)
That sounds a bit complicated, and bad for the web server hosting the script, because he would have to keep the compiled package in his server until you download it. I think what would be MOST convinient is a desktop application that takes source and compiles it into a package. Maybe thats more viable.
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