On Thursday 12 November 2015 14:10:34 Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> The responses from the backports team on this type of issue sometimes
> seems a little on the harsh side, at least to me, given that people are
> just following (a plausible interpretation of) what is documented in the
> Contribute page:
>
> http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/#index7h3
I have exactly the same feeling.
> "To guarantee an upgrade path from stable+backports to the next
> stable, the package should be in testing.. Of course there are some
> exceptions: Security updates. If your package had a security update
> you can upload a new backport even if its not yet in testing. There
> are also some other exception for packages like the kernel, xorg or
> libreoffice."
Perhaps what is missing is notion that new packages must be in "testing" in
order to be accepted to backports but under some circumstances (e.g. security
upgrade) existing package do not have to meet "in testing" criteria...
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All the best,
Dmitry Smirnov.
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