Re: Backports, Stable releases, Testing, Oh my!
On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 09:47 +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> Erm, no, not at all. A package in stable-bpo can't have a newer
> version than testing when we release. With the removal there can be two
> situations:
>
> * After fixing the issue that got the package removed from testing, the
> package flows in like usual into testing, and it will definitely have
> at least the version it had in testing before, most probably higher,
> but never lower.
>
> * The package doesn't flow into testing anymore before the release. If
> this is expected to happen, the package has to be removed from
> stable-bpo.
>
> > What shall we do? Remove from stable-bpo? Hope an update comes around?
>
> Remove from stable-bpo if it's not expected to come back in is what we
> actually do, yes. And to have an overview of these situations I created
> myself the diffstats page:
> http://backports.debian.org/wheezy-backports/overview/
And if the newer version, for example, has updated a database schema in
a non-backward-compatible way?
Cheers,
Nick
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