Re: About backports.
On الأحد 9 آب 2015 16:21, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 03:59:17PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui a écrit :
>>
>> Like you indicated, that's not the only concern. On behalf of stable
>> release users, I think making a recent version of samtools available in
>> stable-backports is important-- I think the backports repository is a
>> huge reason why Debian stable is usable for everyday purposes (and it's
>> the main reason why I switched to Debian from Ubuntu for my own machines).
>
> Backports are definitely great, and the requirement that a backported package
> must have been in Testing is both an asset for the quality and a limitation for
> the logistics. In some cases, Testing migration is completely out of our
> control, for instance with the GCC5 migrations currently.
>
> I sometimes wonder if it would be better to have a separate repository for
> providing Debian Med packages to Stable users. Ideally it would be a Debian
> PPA, but these are not developed yet.
>
> The big advantage that a separate repository would have over the traditional
> backports, is that it would allow us to also distribute some packages for
> Stable without rebuidling them, when they pass their regression tests on
> Stable. This would make such a backport archive much more comprehensive.
>
I'm not sure I understand enough about the workings of Debian yet to
suggest anything helpful, but I'd prefer to support something to improve
the current backports/release system. The issues you bring up seem to be
more general than for any single maintainer or team and dealing with it
at the top level would maybe improve the entire release system. As I
said, though, I don't have a better alternative in mind.
Thanks and regards
Afif
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