On Mon, 04 Jun 2018, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: Hi, > I seek exception to backport Litecoin. > > We intentionally keep it away from testing but it will be more useful if > users of current stable could use Litecoin. > > The purpose of "stable" is to protect users from sudden, unexpected and > breaking changes. Most packages in "stable" won't stop working all of the > sudden. > However nature of Litecoin (and most if not all blockchain software) is > different: it will break if not updated because its functionality depends on > network consensus. In a way this is similar to situation when client software > to some unstable cloud API breaks because service provider do not guarantee > API stability and/or backwards compatibility hence forcing users to use the > latest software. > > Litecoin software itself is rather stable, semantically versioned Bitcoin > derivative. As a high profile software it works well and ever since I > introduced it to Debian back in 2013 it's been relatively bug free. > > I maintain my own private backport ever since release of Strecth and now I > would like to introduce it to official stretch-backports. When its not ready for stable, its not ready for backports. All those reasons against stable apply to backports too. Alex
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