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Re: Maintaining intermediary versions in *-backports



On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 13:14 +0000, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On May 24, 2017 8:30:00 AM EDT, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
[...]
> > I've always understood that the exceptional cases justify backporting a
> > newer version that is currently only in unstable, not an older version.
> > 
> > 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.  But from what I've read,
> > that doesn't seem to be the case with Django 1.10.
> 
> Other than breaking lots of user applications, no.
> 
> Upgrading from 1.7 in Jessie to 1.10 is highly likely to break user
> code (even if it doesn't break things in the archive).

That is a normal risk when using a non-stable suite.

Ben.

> Removal would be better.  If we can't fix 1.8, we should just get rid
> of the backport.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of
incompetence.

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