Hi,
"Adam D. Barratt" <a...@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 23:33 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> On 2015-04-08 22:45, Miguel Landaeta wrote:
>> > Do you think is feasible or acceptable to maintain Jenkins in
>> > jessie-updates suite instead?
>>
>> I am not entirely convinced that Jenkins applies to stable-updates
>> criteria[1]. However, I am leaving the final call on that to the SRMs.
>
> As someone who was involved in the initial setup of stable-updates, I'm
> afraid that I'm not convinced either.
[...]
> https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/LTS+Release+Line suggests
> that "long-term" means "supported for three months". I'm struggling to
> combine those two ideas, particularly in the context of a Debian stable
> release. (Similarly ""battle-tested" — meaning those commits that have
> already been a part of a main line release for more than a week".)
>
> I do wonder whether backports might be suitable, but I can't and won't
> speak on behalf of the backports team.
>From my understanding, packages in ${x}-backports must be included in
the ${x+1} release. For a package like Jenkins this currently doesn't
seem possible, so it cannot go to backports either.
So it looks to me like we currently miss a place to offer a package like
Jenkins to stable users, but it would be nice to have one as I believe
there will be more packages in this situation in the future (even though
we might not like this).
I do wonder a bit how much this is different from Iceweasel or Chromium
however: there we also ship new upstream releases to stay at a supported
version (though the life-time for Jenkins seems even shorter). Of course
this only works as long as no new dependencies are pulled in, or at
least stay at something managable.
Ansgar
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