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Backports, Stable releases, Testing, Oh my!



Howdy folks,

I'm sending to both -devel and backports. I'm not sure which is the
correct list. If one's wrong, feel free to drop it in replies.

I've been talking with a mentee about backporting procedures, and I've
explained why we don't backport until a package hits tending (stable <
stable-bpo < testing <= unstable)

However, with the new testing removals from the release team (which is
totally great for creating an always releasable testing, many thanks for
that), we can create a situation where stable-bpo has a newer version
than testing when we release (lazy maintainer never fixed the rc bug).

What shall we do? Remove from stable-bpo? Hope an update comes around?
Does it make sense to revisit the rules? Does a wait until testing still
make sense (ok, waiting always makes sense, but beyond the 'let it
settle' thing)


Much love,
  Paul

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