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Re: Closing of buster-backports?



Am Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 10:11:15PM +0200 schrieb Rene Engelhard:
> Hi,
> 
> whatever is fine, I can live with both, but:
> 
> Am 07.09.22 um 07:37 schrieb Alexander Wirt:
> > > > Now that buster is LTS and no longer officially supported, should the
> > > > -backports pocket be closed? AFAIK, buster just receives the security
> > > > uploads by the -security pocket and shouldn't have -backports open
> > > > anymore. I hope I am not mistaken or missing anything?
> > > > 
> > > > FTR, packages are still entering the -backports pocket and this
> > > > probably needs to stop(!?)
> > > Why should it stop?  If people are willing to do the work to backport a
> > > package, why should it be blocked?  The understanding is that the release as
> > > a whole will not be supported, but voluntary updates will continue.
> > we (backports ftpmasters) asked that question some time ago. Consensus was that the backports
> > maintainers doesn't want to support oldstable backports over its lts lifetime.
> 
> I would maintain them (by backporting what is in bullseye.
> 
> What I surely will not do is to do updates in buster itself, so any security
> update in buster will probably only be over this way. (Or none, unless the
> LTS team actually backports the patches, which can be cumbersome even for
> 7.0.4. Now think of a 6.1.5 :))
> 
> > For that reason we will close oldstable-backports soon.
> 
> What is "soon"?
> 
> I have already libreoffice 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3~bpo10+1 in deferred (should
> become real on Saturday after the point release adding that
> 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3 to stable)

Now that Buster is in LTS mode I would expect that to happen within the next weeks. 

Alex


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