On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, Etienne Dysli-Metref wrote: > Hello mentors, > > I would like to backport Shibboleth packages [1] to jessie and wheezy. > > - What branch name should I use? > Documentation for git-buildpackage [2] says "debian/<release>" so that > would yield "debian/jessie-backports-sloppy", but I've seen > "backports/<release>" earlier so I'm unsure. > > - Can I push the backport branches to the repositories in [1]? The backports team doesn't care about the git, you will have to ask the other maintainers. > > - What should the changelog entry look like? "Backport to <release>"? That + all backports specific changes to the package. > - Are older "backport" changelog entries kept or removed when a new > version is backported? > The Backports contribution doc [3] says: > > > Backports of an updated version of a package that was backported > > before may have a changelog that merges entries of backports of > > previous versions, but this is not required. > > but I can't make sense out of this... You can, but you don't have to include the changelog entrys in the changes file. We (ftpmasters) don't enforce this (anymore). Alex - ftpmaster
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