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Re: Maintaining intermediary versions in *-backports



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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