Am Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 10:11:15PM +0200 schrieb Rene Engelhard: > Hi, > > whatever is fine, I can live with both, but: > > Am 07.09.22 um 07:37 schrieb Alexander Wirt: > > > > Now that buster is LTS and no longer officially supported, should the > > > > -backports pocket be closed? AFAIK, buster just receives the security > > > > uploads by the -security pocket and shouldn't have -backports open > > > > anymore. I hope I am not mistaken or missing anything? > > > > > > > > FTR, packages are still entering the -backports pocket and this > > > > probably needs to stop(!?) > > > Why should it stop? If people are willing to do the work to backport a > > > package, why should it be blocked? The understanding is that the release > > > as > > > a whole will not be supported, but voluntary updates will continue. > > we (backports ftpmasters) asked that question some time ago. Consensus was > > that the backports > > maintainers doesn't want to support oldstable backports over its lts > > lifetime. > > I would maintain them (by backporting what is in bullseye. > > What I surely will not do is to do updates in buster itself, so any security > update in buster will probably only be over this way. (Or none, unless the > LTS team actually backports the patches, which can be cumbersome even for > 7.0.4. Now think of a 6.1.5 :)) > > > For that reason we will close oldstable-backports soon. > > What is "soon"? > > I have already libreoffice 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3~bpo10+1 in deferred (should > become real on Saturday after the point release adding that > 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3 to stable)
Now that Buster is in LTS mode I would expect that to happen within the next weeks. Alex
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