On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 09:07:55PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On Sunday 10 April 2016 08:26 PM, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > I do realize that it will be very useful for everyone to have Gitlab > > installable on jessie right now, but I am not completely sure that > > uploading 300+ packages to jessie-backports is a good idea. Will you be > > able to support that _for the whole lifetime of jessie_ once the time > > funded by Gitlab Inc runs out? > > I will discuss with gitlab folks about the possibility of an LTS version > or possibility of continued funding. It's not just Gitlab, the issue is bigger than that. Let me clarify. When you upload a backport, you are responsible for it. Are you willing to support¹ _all of those 300+ packages_ in jessie-backports for the whole filetime of jessie? ¹ meaning keeping them current with bugs fixed in unstable/testing, handling security updates, etc. An alternative would be to provide an external repository that is only supported until stretch is released, and support upgrades from jessie + such repository to stretch. > > Also, your list includes things like openssl, I really don't think you > > should touch that. > > openssl update was required for nodejs backport. openssl is a _critical_ piece of infrastructure that affects pretty much everything, and IMO you should not touch it, no matter what. If you really upload a nodejs backport you need to make it build and work against the openssl in stable.
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