Re: backport python-astropy for jessie?
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:00:43AM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote:
> > I admit I'm not very motivated to sponsor backports. I somehow need to
> > draw a line what I can do and what not. However, I'd recommend to read
> > the backport guidelines. As far as I remember its not necessary to be
> > a DD but rather to get accepted by the backport team.
>
> We don't have a specific policy for Debian Astro and mainly use the
> Debian Science policy as a guide (and I insist in using git).
May be it makes sense to copy the Backporting paragraph to Debian
Science.
> So, it
> would probably wise to follow Debian-Meds guide to put the backports
> into a "jessie-backports" branch of the reporitories, and to follow
> https://backports.debian.org/Contribute/
The branch is actually called
debian/jessie-backports
we used only jessie-backports but somebody raised some good arguments
(which I forgot) to prefix it with debian/.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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