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.)

[Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de>]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2019, 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?
There were several discussions over the last years. And yes, our vision of
backports does not match the vision of those fastpace/not ready for
stable/whatever you call them repos. In our vision debian-backports consists
of new (tested, as in "is in testing") features from the next debian release.
By definition that does not match packages that will not be part of the next
debian release. 

Alex

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