Re: what to do with LTS-backports?
On 21 May 2016 at 07:58, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 06:11:46PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
>> Is there some way to a) notify the maintainers their backports are
>> outdated [1]. b) script a mass update/rebuild that nags users with
>> NEWS files for the affected backports [1]?
>>
>> [1] Using something like http://backports.debian.org/wheezy-backports/outdated/
>
> I've never noticed these pages before. Looking at
> http://backports.debian.org/jessie-backports/overview/ I realize that I
> would like to have a page without "the green packages"…
"jessie...without the green packages" like this?:
http://backports.debian.org/jessie-backports/outdated/
P.S. I didn't know about these pages either, until Rhonda posted
links. Thank you Rhonda!
On 19 May 2016 at 08:16, Rhonda D'Vine <rhonda@deb.at> wrote:
> Looking at the stats, we have 327 out of 1040 [1] backported source
> package which have a newer upstream version in jessie than what we have
> in wheezy-backports, and an additional 175 packages [2] which have an
> updated Debian revision only. That's kinda *huge*, frankly spoken.
>
> [1] <http://backports.debian.org/wheezy-backports/outdated/>
> [2] <http://backports.debian.org/wheezy-backports/older/>
Cheers,
Nicholas
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