Re: RFC: jessie-backports-lts
So to clarify, this would be for backports from stretch, not sloppy backports?
Stephen
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 4:10 PM Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> Alex - Backports ftpmaster
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