Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers
Le Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:47:30AM +0300, Riku Voipio a écrit :
>
> While people want LTS, they still want latest version of various apps
> they use (browser, new gcc and python for some inhouse development, etc),
> as well as support for all the new hardware they buy. Solving these two
> goals at the same time is tricky. We'd like to have the cake and eat it
> too.
There may be some light at the end of the tunnel with two game-changing
developments:
- The possibility to copy packages between archives with the same interface
already in use to manage DM permissions. This could be used to allow the
maintainer of a package in Testing to copy it to Backports.
(https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/09/msg00008.html)
- The transfer of a package's regression tests from the build process to
the "autopkgtest" system. This would allow to frequently test that packages
in Backports are working. (http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/)
In my field (command-line bioinformatics), where the build dependencies are
often simple and not too demanding, it think it will be straightforward to
provide up-to-date backports even if the support for Stable is extended of a
few years.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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