Re: RFC: jessie-backports-lts
Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> as you may know backports doesn't support LTS. The main reason is that
> most maintainers didn't want to support their packages for such a long time.
>
> In the last days I had the idea to introduce a new suite names -lts, i.e.
> jessie-backports-lts. That suite starts with the handover of a release
> to the lts team. Maintainers uploading to it should support their packages
> over the whole lifetime of the whole LTS lifetime.
>
> Does that make sense? Should we introduce such a suite?
Not sure it's a helpful response, but I would have no problem with such
a suite, although I don't plan on using it.
I don't want to to derail this thread, but at some point I'd like to
have a discussion about oldstable-backports operating in a more opt-in
manner (instead of automatic migration from stable-backports).
d
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