Re: Backporting from stable(-proposed-updates) to oldstable-backports
On Wed, 31 Jan 2018, Simon McVittie wrote:
> At what point in the life cycle of a stable package is it appropriate
> to upload a backport of that package to oldstable-backports?
>
> 1) New version proposed in a release.debian.org bug
> 2) SRMs give permission to upload, package uploaded and is listed in
> https://release.debian.org/proposed-updates/stable.html
> 3) Package processed by SRMs and is published on mirrors in the
> stable-proposed-updates suite
That one.
> 4) Stable point release issued, package is published on mirrors in the
> stable suite
>
> So far I have been assuming that the answer is state 4, but perhaps
> state 3 or even state 2 is "official enough" to backport?
>
> For backports from stable-security, I assume we can upload a backport
> as soon as the stable-security version is published on
> security.debian.org?
yes.
Alex
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