Re: Newer Meson backports for stretch/buster?
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 10:19 AM Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> 在 2020-03-15星期日的 15:25 -0700，Matt Turner写道：
> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 1:45 AM Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > Boyuan Yang [2020-03-13 14:58 -0400]:
> > > > I think Martin is working on it. Maybe we can expect some process in the
> > > > near
> > > > future.
> > >
> > > Yes, as I said last time, I did upload meson to buster-backports, it's
> > > been
> > > sitting in NEW for a few days:
> > > https://ftp-master.debian.org/backports-new.html
> >
> > Thank you very much, Martin!
> >
> > Could you also backport it to stretch?
>
> Although not completely impossible, I think it would be somehow difficult
> because Debian 9 ("Stretch") will reach EOL (End-Of-Life) this year in 2020,
> according to https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases. When it reaches the EOL,
> both stretch-backports and stretch-backports-sloppy repository will be closed
> and no longer maintained. Long Term Support (LTS) is not supported by the
> Backports team.
I completely understand.
> Since Debian 10 ("Buster") already has meson 0.52, can you help to forward the
> discussion happened at
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2020/03/threads.html to Wayland/GTK
> upstream and ask them to feel free to raise the bar of Meson requirement (to
> at least 0.52)? From the Debian side, we sincerely do not want to block the
> development of upstream projects.
Thank you. I will do that.
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