Re: Wheezy freeze and squeeze-backports-sloppy

[Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de>]

Jeroen Schot schrieb am Thursday, den 12. July 2012:

Hi,

> Yesterday I got a request for a backport of a package version that
> will not enter wheezy because of the freeze. This got me thinking
> about using squeeze-backports-sloppy.
> 
> When will the squeeze-backports-sloppy suite be available for uploads?
> (I believe that lenny-backports-sloppy was created when squeeze entered
> 'deep freeze').
Soon. I just have to find some time to get things sorted.

> 
> I could not find anything about this on the backports website, but I can
> imagine the following extra rules for uploading to -sloppy:
> 
>  * Package must be in sid (or experimental?)
sid and targetted to wheezy+1
>  * Package must be at least 10 days old and without RC bugs.
depends on the rc bug. We don't care for things like multi-arch or hardened
bugs. 

>  * Package must be sufficiently different from the version in wheezy.
This is a point for all backports :)

Thats all for now, more later if I have more time.

Alex - backports ftpmaster
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