Re: [debian-lts] file package
* Christoph Biedl:
> And that's a bad thing. The maintainer very likely has more experience
> with the package than anybody else, and also with the packaging. Knows
> the gotchas in the code. Has out-of-tree test suites, and better
> connections to upstream.
Part of the LTS deal was that it wouldn't burden the rest of Debian
with support commitments. Expectations from maintainers very widely.
On the one end are those who refuse to do any work for LTS (and in the
most extreme cases, stable), not even cursory package reviews or
courtesy notifications. On the other end, people still care a lot
about the squeeze versions of their packages. Both are valid
positions (but not the part about (old)stable, of course).
By the way, tracking issues for squeeze is another area of LTS
leakage. This came up in Essen briefly, and those who are doing the
work are fine with the current state of affairs.
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