[Debian-ha-maintainers] Debconf apologies & BoF

[Matthew Vernon]

On 20/08/15 12:23, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Matthew Vernon <matthew at debian.org> writes:

> There were concerns raised about using the jessie-backports repo only.
> Basically, what happens when we package a new upstream release of some
> component of the stack?  Do we backport that when it reaches testing?

I would have said "no", except for security fixes. But I gather the
backports team wouldn't be happy with that, which is a shame.

> People running production setups wouldn't be happy about that.  On the
> other hand, occasional critical fixes should be backported and made
> available to such "stable" setups.  On the other hand we can't push for
> a stable update, because libqb and corosync is present in jessie and
> their stable versions are supposedly used by other packages in stable.

Mm, I'd forgotten we had (uselessly old?) corosync in stable.

Regards,

Matthew