On 10/01/16 00:44, Sean Whitton wrote: > Do you mind if I prepare and submit for sponsorship a backport of > Ikiwiki version 3.20150614 for jessie-backports? See bug #807452.
Hi, Sorry I didn't reply to the bug before now. The .deb of ikiwiki in testing/unstable is installable on stable, and I intend to keep that true (it doesn't contain any compiled code, so there are no ABI issues). My own "production" ikiwiki installation uses ikiwiki from unstable on an otherwise stable/backports system, and I test new ikiwiki versions that way before uploading them to unstable. My understanding had been that the backports ftp-masters prefer not to have rebuilt software included in backports if the .deb in testing could just have been installed on stable without recompilation, which is true here. If I'm wrong about that policy, I'd prefer to handle the backports myself (which wouldn't need sponsorship), to ensure that backports doesn't lag behind testing in future. If I do that, I'll test the proposed backport on stable/backports at release time, then delay uploading it until the new upstable version reaches testing. It would be great if there was an upload queue which would do this automatically. You are of course very welcome to participate in ikiwiki development/maintenance, which mainly takes place upstream (<http://ikiwiki.info/>). S
