[Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Bug#1053747: Bug#1053747: Bug#1053747: Upload phosh to bookworm-backports ?

[Arnaud Ferraris]

Hi,

Le 13/10/2023 à 17:54, Pirate Praveen via Debian-on-mobile-maintainers a 
écrit :

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> 
> Arnaud,
> 
> Do you think it would be a good idea to have bookworm-backports suite in 
> mobian repo and upload these there?

No, our goal with Mobian is to lower the number of packages we maintain 
and have those in Debian, so the whole system can benefit from our work 
and we can benefit from the Debian infrastructure, such as numerous 
mirrors and security updates, among other things.

In this regard, phosh was one of the first packages we could move to 
Debian and drop from our repo, I don't see the point in taking a step 
backwards, especially as we don't have the resources to ensure we don't 
break anything in the process.

Hopefully your main issue will be fixed in g-s-d 46 which is a few 
months away and will be uploaded to trixie, so let's just wait and stick 
to the known workaround for now.

> 
> As for bugs, I think keeping up with new upstream versions would be a 
> good strategy. If I go with byzantium experience, I'd think you will 
> support newer versions on crimson, so having bookworm-backports should 
> be easier to maintain.

Providing new upstream versions in stable-backports *might* be 
beneficial to *some*, but as mentioned already in this thread, it 
represents a significant workload no one in the Mobian or DebianOnMobile 
teams can commit to, especially as there wouldn't be any obvious 
problems fixed that way.

Therefore, I fully agree with Guido's analysis above (message #45).

Cheers,
Arnaud