Re: Script for automatically backporting

[Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl>]

Op 10-12-11 12:59, Paul van der Vlis schreef:

> In my opinion the best way for backporting would be to automatically
> make a stable-backport for every package what's uploaded to sid and to
> add it to the backports when it enters testing. But that's another
> discussion. Was there such a discussion in the past?

I thought about this idea, maybe it's realistic to try it as a seperate
process, like sometimes the full archive is rebuilded by somebody.

Maybe all packages what does not need any build-dep's from others first,
then as a next run the packages what only needs packages from the first
run, and so on.
But it's much work to make it work, I think...

And signing is a problem, because officially a package needs to be
modified for backporting, e.g. the version number.
http://backports-master.debian.org/Contribute/#index5h3

Maybe interesting:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2011/10/msg00024.html

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.


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> With regards,
> Paul.
> 
> 
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