Re: python-django_1.8.18-1~bpo8+1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Rhonda D'Vine <rhonda@deb.at>]

* Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> [2017-05-25 15:44:56 CEST]:
> On Thu, 25 May 2017 at 13:30:27 +0200, Rhonda D'Vine wrote:
> >  If the packages are in sync, (LTS)maintaining oldstable-backports turns
> > into a no-brainer, as the patches in stable shouldn't pose any
> > additional incompatibilities that would affect the former backport
> 
> ... unless a stable (security?) update adds or increase dependencies
> (rare, but I think I've seen it happen), and the dependency is satisfied
> in stable but not in oldstable.

 There are always exceptions. :)  Packages have been dropped from
(old)stable too because they become not-supportable over the time.  But
that shouldn't be the reason to not even try to minimize the efforts
needed.

 Enjoy,
Rhonda
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