Re: backporting Litecoin [not-in-testing]
On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 06:26:31PM +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> Now I'll have to reconsider that because it is impossible to backport
> software which is not in "testing". Maybe it will be easier to convince
> release managers to grant an exception to update Litecoin in "stable" when
> necessary but certainly that will require more work and more coordination...
It used to be the case that this wasn't allowed, but when volatile was
folded into stable-updates, this has changed.
Nowadays, stable release managers are perfectly happy to allow updates
(within reason) if external parameters change that break the software in
question. Litecoin breaking because the algorithm changed or something
would be a perfect example. ClamAV is another one, which has been
allowed to be updated like that.
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