Re: how to deal with widely used packages unsuitable for stable (was Re: [Git][security-tracker-team/security-tracker][master] Add radare2 to dla-needed.txt with comments.)

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 09:17:32AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2019, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> > Fast Track repo works exactly like current backports except the packages
> > are added from unstable (or experimental during transitions and freeze)
> > as they cannot go to testing and hence to current backports.
> > 
> > As Paul noted earlier, backports team is not interested to change
> > current backports criteria.
> 
> Can you point us the discussion where this got refused?
> 
> Honestly I don't like the idea of using an external service.

Let's just see how it works out? backports also started as an external service
and was eventually moved under debian.org infrastructure.

Cheers,
        Moritz