On Mon, 18 Jul 2016, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > On domingo, 17 de julio de 2016 11:13:24 A. M. ART Lisandro Damián Nicanor > Pérez Meyer wrote: > [snip] > > I acknowledge that there are a hadful of packages that use Qt5's private > > headers on jessie and that those need a rebuit, I was planning to do that > > once the full stack is there. > [snip] > > Now it seems backports are not ready for uploading bigger stacks like this, > > which if it's really the case I can understand it. If so, please do *not* > > heasiate and remove harfbuzz, qtchooser, qt4-x11, qt*-opensource-src and > > reject qtcreator ans qbs from NEW. > > While I wait for, at very least, an aswer to the above from a BPO FTP master > I'll add another technical question, which I would like answered also by a BPO > ftp master. > > From a technical point of view rebuilding a stable package against a version > in bpo is feasible, but I don't know if it's possible due to policy/man power > to handle them/another issue. > > As an example, suposse we have > > foo_<jessie_version> > > in jessie. If it somehow required a rebuilt against a package in backports > someone could easily prepare a backports-like upload with version > > foo_<jessie_version>+bpo8+1 (note the + instead of the ~) what is the somehow? That case should never happen. And we don't support it either. Source of backports is only testing (except for security uploads). Alex > > Of course, same rules applies as for any other bpo package: whoever uploads it > must take reposability for it's bugs, ask for a rebuild in case the jessie > version gets uploaded, etc. > > I don't see any technical reason why not to do this, but again, maybe there > are policy/man power issues to support this. So I would like to know: would > this be welcomed in bpo? > > Regards, Lisandro. > > -- > Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree. > > Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer > http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ > http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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