Re: Request for sponsoring (stretch-backports )
Hello Gianfranco,
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:15:30 +0000 (UTC)
Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org> wrote:
> The maintainer might know about issues we are not aware, so the
> sponsoring from him is usually easier/more trivial thana backport
> from somebody that is not aware of the package history.This is why it
> is usually preferred to have the maintainers' opinions before
> backporting stuff touched by somebody else. I didn't say it is
> impossible, but with active maintainer better ask them. G.
I could confirm that trivially backported boto3 and botocore work well
in Xenial, but I had to backport requests ans s3transfer too (and may
be some stuff, they depend on).
>
> Il martedì 23 ottobre 2018, 17:58:54 CEST, Sascha Girrulat
> <sascha@girrulat.de> ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> On 23.10.18 15:38, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> > Usually the best way is to contact directly the involved
> > maintainers (in cc to this emai>
> > If they don't care/answer, an RFS bug might be the best thing to
> > do, to avoid emails getting lost
> ah, thx. I thought that backports has not be done by the original
> maintainer itself. I had read the contribute page but i missed the
> last part in the maintainer section ;-).
>
> If i understand it right backports could managed from other
> maintainers/uploaders if the original maintainer would/could not do
> it?
>
> Regards
> Sascha
>
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