Re: [Letsencrypt-devel] Certbot in Debian Stretch
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 02:45:26PM +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016, at 13:39, Philipp Kern wrote:
> > So if you, as an upstream maintainer, have a change that is needed for
> > compatibility with changes in network APIs and the change is reviewable
> > by humans, a stable update could be possible. It's still on a
> > case-by-case basis, so you would need to ask and the Release Team cannot
> > approve what they do not know about.
>
> There are more cases where Debian stable is getting new upstream
> releases.
> It's mostly to keep up with the security (MySQL, PHP),
>...
These are long-term supported upstream stable branches.
Debian cannot just sacrifice stability by throwing the latest upstream
release of some random packages into stable.
And rewarding an upstream not able or willing to provide stability would
also set the incentive the wrong way.
If it is likely that some packages cannot be supported until the end of
the (non-LTS) lifetime of stretch in mid/end-2020, then please file RC
bugs to keep these packages out of stretch.
> Cheers,
cu
Adrian
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