On Thu, 2017-05-25 at 09:31 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Thu, 25 May 2017 18:19:49 +1000 > Brian May <bam@debian.org> wrote: > > > Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> writes: > > > > > Agreed. 1.8 *must* remain available. The only supportable route > > > otherwise is to push 1.8 into jessie. > > > > Is that likely to break anything in Jessie? > > > > I don't think I can see the stable release team agreeing to this. Even > > if nothing else breaks. > > > > > Removal of 1.8 is *not* an option at any cost. > > > > It may be outside your control? What then? > > > > Is creating a repository outside Debian a possibility? > > It's not just a possibility, it is a reality and a necessary one so > that we can continue to provide upstream releases to users during the > Debian freeze. > > https://validation.linaro.org/static/docs/v2/installing_on_debian.html#lava-repositories > > The problem then is that if we lose lava-server from stretch, it > becomes more difficult to install lava for users. I want lava-server to > remain in Debian, to be in each stable release. From what I've seen, having LAVA in a third party APT repository wouldn't make it noticeably harder to install. You could put whatever version of Django you need in that repository too. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
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