Hi, On Thu, 29 Aug 2019, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > The upstream link makes it sound as if they are one of those upstreams > which reject the idea of distributions shipping an older release to > a stable distro. For a tool like radare2 that seems fair enough, so > how about simply excluding it from stable releases (and retroactively > drop it from Buster/Stretch in the forthcoming point releases)?
<pkg-security hat> While I have no problem in getting it out of stable release, it is important that we are able to provide backports so the package must stay in Debian testing. </pkg-security hat> <kali hat> Also radare2 is a package that we care about in Kali and we are based on Debian testing so we would prefer if it could continue to be there. </kali hat> In general, we (Debian) don't have a good answer to this problem and virtualbox is clearly a bad precedent. We really need to find a solution to this in concertation with the release managers. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: https://debian-handbook.info/get/
