Backport requirements exception for some packages (php5)
Hi,
we were discussing in the PHP maint group that we would like to provide
backported version of latest PHP patch release (e.g. 5.4.4 -> 5.4.21) in
the Debian backports.
This is currently impossible because there's a requirement to have a
version in the testing first, and we have already bumped minor version
in unstable (5.4 -> 5.5) and there's always an ABI change between PHP
minor release.
Would it be possible to get an exception from this rule, so we can
provide latest same-branch-upstream PHP while packaging the latest
upstream (5.5+) in the Debian unstable?
We really don't want to jump through hoops by using experimental, or
t-p-u, but it would help the whole ecosystem by allowing this in the
backports.
O.
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