On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, Sean Whitton wrote: > Dear Simon, > > Thanks for getting back to me on this. > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 01:34:59PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > > 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. > > Okay. If that's the policy then a backport would indeed be > inappropriate. Thats a guideline, not a strict policy. If the package is interesting enough, we will happily accept it in backports. I would say ikiwiki is one of them.
Alex - Backports ftpmaster
