Re: Backports, Stable releases, Testing, Oh my!

[Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de>]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2014, Micha Lenk wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I deliberately decided to drop debian-devel. IMHO debian-backports
> is definitely the right place to continue this discussion.
> 
> On 26.02.2014 09:31, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> >My concern with autoremoving packages from backports is that it would
> >take an extended amount of time to get the package back into backports
> >after the RC bug is fixed; it'd have to go through the backports NEW
> >queue again, whereas packages in unstable don't need to take a detour
> >through the NEW queue in order to re-migrate to testing.
> 
> That is true. I guess this is mainly a relict of the time when
> backports were not officially integrated, and backports's DAK had no
> access to the override entries from unstable and testing. Meanwhile
> this mere technical limitation should be gone (modulo its actual
> implementation).
> 
> But I guess this was and is not the only reason for the NEW queue
> for uploads to *-backports. Can the backports FTP masters please add
> some comments here?
Backports are different packages, with often different maintainers and
different requirements. I would strongly object against deprecating the NEW
queue.

Alex