Re: jessie-backports-sloppy
On Thu, 07 May 2015, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Are there any plans to support jessie-backports-sloppy for packages
> from sid? At the moment a candidate would be openjdk-8 which is blocked
> from migration owing to build problems on some architectures.
No. -sloppy is to support packages from testing to oldstable.
> I had thought that the sloppy distributions were fair game for backports from
> sid, but this isn't mentioned in the current contributions doc[1]. It's
> possible I was mistaken though, or that I missed a change of policy.
Nope. Its just to keep a sane upgrade path from backports to a new stable.
>
> (Also, I think there is a mistake in that doc - in the Supported Distribtions
> table, source distribution jessie should map to squeeze-backports-sloppy
> rather than jessie-backports-sloppy).
Fixed, thanks for the hint.
Alex
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