On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 16:08 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 01:30:00PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > ... > > I think we should have an additional exception for cases where it > > becomes impractical to backport newer versions but a maintainer is > > willing to support it with important fixes. > > ... > > Is this a good idea, or wouldn't it be better to strongly try to avoid > backporting such packages at all? [...] That assumes knowledge of future incompatibilities. As an example, initramfs-tools in wheezy-backports is version 0.115~bpo70+1 and I never updated it to 0.120 because that's incompatible with the wheezy versions of cryptsetup, lvm2 and systemd- sysv. I think I could update it to 0.116 safely but that doesn't seem to be allowed. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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