Bug#1109532: unblock: kicad/9.0.3+dfsg-1
On Wed, 2025-08-20 at 09:01 +0200, Tarik Graba wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le 19/08/2025 à 19:02, Adam D. Barratt a écrit :
> > On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 13:45 +0200, Tarik Graba wrote:
> > > kicad/9.0.3+dfsg-1 did not make it into trixie, but I see that it
> > > has been accepted into bookworm-backports and testing.
> > >
> > > Do you know if/when it will migrate to trixe?
> >
> > Packages don't migrate from testing to stable. If there are
> > particular fixes that warrant it then those can be requested by
> > following the process for updates in stable, but a new upstream
> > version of the apparent size of 9.0.3 (relative to 9.0.2) is
> > unlikely to be suitable without more detail.
>
[...]
> > Unless there was a specific agreement with the backports team, that
> > version should also not have been uploaded to bookworm-backports.
> > The supported backports paths are testing -> stable-backports, and
> > stable - oldstable-backports. A backport from testing to oldstable
> > belongs in bookworm-backports-sloppy at this point.
>
> Actually, stable backports are not yet open, and, kicad 9.0.3 has
> been uploaded to oldstable-backports which I am using actually.
You appear to be agreeing with what I said, I think. And doing so
without having agreed that with the backports team violates the rules
of backports. https://backports.debian.org/Contribute/#index4h3 ;
"
With the release of a new stable version uploading packages with
versions greater than in new stable or new stable-security are not
allowed. So if you want to upload a new package version from e.g. forky
to bookworm, use bookworm-backports-sloppy as the target distribution.
"
> But, this makes upgrading from oldstable+backports to stable more
> "complicated".
Indeed, which is one of the reasons that it's not allowed.
> Thus, I was hopping, kicad 9.0.3 will be proposed for stable updates
> before the next point release in September.
Then someone needs to do that, by following the standard procedure as
per the Developers Reference
and https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/08/msg00003.html
I'm afraid that someone will not be me. I have absolutely no interest
in the package, nor free time to be sponsoring an upload.
Regards,
Adam
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