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Re: RFC: jessie-backports-lts



On Fri, 2018-06-08 at 23:09 +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?

Could you please announce a decision on this?  I will need to upload an
updated linux backport for jessie soon.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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