I just don't want to have to be going through backports approvals for the 
package every time I update it.  Idea is to remove the slower processing time 
where possible.



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-------- Original message --------
From: ddstreet <ddstr...@ieee.org>
Date: 9/3/24 15:04 (GMT-05:00)
To: tew...@ubuntu.com, Backports Discussion <ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Request for BPO Exception: XCA



On Mon, 8 Jul 2024, Thomas Ward wrote:

>
> Hello.
>
>
>
> The Universe package XCA is a tool for creating and managing X.509 
> certificates, certificate requests, RSA/DSA/EC private keys, Smartcard 
> integrations, and CRLs.  It is designed so that
> a CA can be fully functional from the tooling itself (except for OCSP 
> responders, etc.).
>
>
>
> There are changes that happen to the XCA package that include changes that 
> break reverse compatibility due to feature changes, etc. and in turn is why I 
> backported XCA recently.
>
>
>
> I am the Debian package maintainer as well as the Ubuntu ‘maintainer’.  It 
> has no reverse dependencies, and it is recommended that the latest version of 
> XCA be used instead of differing
> versions because sometimes things get added to the underlying DB (SQLite, 
> etc.) format that needs latest versions to work with because of occasionally 
> reverse-incompatible changes.
>
>
>
> Therefore, because of newer features and changes that are beyond just bug 
> fixes, it is prudent to have the version in Devel match the version in stable 
> releases.
>
>
>
> To that end, I’d like to request a backports exception for src:xca so that I 
> can continue to provide the backported versions regularly to current 
> supported LTS releases.
>

First, sorry for my obviously very late reply :-)

This all sounds like xca falls into the normal case for backported packages, so 
unless I'm misunderstanding, it doesn't seem like any exception is required?

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> Thomas Ward
> Debian Maintainer of src:xca
>
> Ubuntu Core Developer
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