Re: approval for backporting stable releases of [calligra,zabbix] (not in "testing")
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 09:12:18AM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> On Thursday 12 November 2015 22:45:38 Alexander Wirt wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> > > Please let me know if I've missed a Debian facility allowing to
> > > deliver conservative upstream stable releases to users of current
> > > "stable" without replacing software that were frozen in stable. I
> > > thought that backports is a perfect facility for that...
> >
> > such ja facility is missing at the moment, but backports is not meaned as
> > such.
>
> Do we have anything on road map to cover this gap?
> I've never thought about sloppy backport before so I wonder when it might
> become available?
Well, depending on the exact conservativeness of "conservative upstream
stable releases", I think stable point releases are those.
Michael
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