Re: RFC: jessie-backports-lts

["Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 11:09:52PM +0200, Alexander Wirt 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?

I'd be willing to make that commitment for e2fsprogs, so I'd be in favor.

       	       	       	    	       - Ted