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Re: RFC: jessie-backports-lts



On Fri, 29 Jun 2018, Ben Hutchings 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.
I think there wasn't enough interest and we will just close jessie at all
soon. 

Alex

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