Re: Automated backports based on Janitor work?

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Jelmer Vernooij:
> Hi Lucas,
>
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 11:39:06AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > [...]
> > Jelmer, did you already think about that? Is there a way one could help
> > you?
>
> Reviving this thread that's more than a year old...
>
> [...]
>
> Known issues that still need to be addressed:
>
>   * backport from testing rather than unstable
>   * rename the suite from bullseye-backports to something that does't
>     clash with the official backports (version strings are already different)
>   * finish processing the rest of the archive
>   * better sanity checking to prevent too many dependencies from being
>     pulled in
>
> I haven't decided on a name yet. "auto-bullseye-backports", perhaps?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jelmer


To save the janitor some compute power, would make sense to skip 
packages that have already been backported?  E.g., I noted there is an 
auto-backport for debhelper even though debhelper is "in sync" between 
stable-backports and testing (or even sid at the moment).

Other than that, I think this looks great and I hope this will help make 
backporting more smooth.

Thanks,
~Niels