On Mon, 04 Jun 2018, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > On Monday, 4 June 2018 4:01:27 PM AEST Alexander Wirt wrote: > > When its not ready for stable, its not ready for backports. All those > > reasons against stable apply to backports too. > > You are wrong. Backports is for something that you could use on "stable" but > can't because it is not in "stable". Notably we use backports for newer > versions of software but it would be silly to say that older version of that > software must already be in "stable". > > Clearly this particular reason against stable doe not apply to backports > because backports can be updated at any time when necessary. And it is great > that we can use backports when we need to bypass normal stable release cycle > - that's precisely what backports are for. Then we agree to disagree. We don't want backports that are not in testing. Alex
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