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Re: d/s/support: Explicit info about backports and supported Debian releases



Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it> writes:

> I'd like to start a discussion about making the maintainer's
> preferences regarding support for older Debian releases in source
> packages a bit more explicit. In case this discussion garners
> interest, I'll draft a more formal DEP.

> ## Solution: basic idea

> The file `debian/source/support` contains a list of supported
> releases, one per line.

If a new file is needed (why not just README.source?) is it worth
thinking how future extensions could be added -- "support" seems much
wider concept than just what distribution is accepted and people might
want to add documentation of other things, eg "non-packaging bugs will
ignored", or "i only update thispackage once per release" or "no patches
accepted". A simple list would make that harder to support?


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