On sam., 2012-05-12 at 23:45 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Being forced to upgrade to a new major version by a stable security support is > nothing we should force our users to. Debian stable is known for (usually) > painfree updates and bugfixes only, not for shipping completely new versions > with a forced migration. Yes, that's usually the case. But I think having (*few*) exceptions is actually helpful. I was the one preparing the update, because of my security team hat and because I do use wordpress on one small blog. I tried to package latest point release (3.0.6) and backport some patches from the various releases in the more recent branches, but it's just doomed to fail. Wordpress upstream doesn't seem to be able to support a stable branch long enough for us (and I don't blame them for that, we do know how painful it is). > Therefore - in my opinion - we should not ship > wordpress in Wheezy, at least not until upstream handles such issues in a sane > way. I'm unsure if squeeze (and wheezy)-updates is really suited for that, but I know that I prefer having a wordpress updated in Debian (either by the security team or the maintainers) to a new upstream release than not having it at all and having to handle it myself (even if in this case I handled it myself). -- Yves-Alexis
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