exim4 in stable-bpo ?

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2018-03-15 Lutz Preßler <Lutz.Pressler at sernet.de> wrote:
> would it be possible to introduce exim4 packages into the stretch
> backports repository (as seems to be the case for other packages)?
> The 4.90.1-1 version in testing at the moment _appears_ to build on
> stretch/amd64 without a problem and works for us.

Hello,

Backporting should be possible without (or just tiny) adaptions.

> We'd like to use at least 4.90.1 on stretch because of some major
> problems with a cutthrough delivery setup in 4.89 (and in part earlier).
> To have a version with security support by "Debian" would be nice,
> of course. To be honest, I'm not sure if there is security support
> for stable-bpo at all though.

security support in bpo needs to provided by the bpo-maintainer,
debian-security does not cover it. For embargoed issues the
security support will therefore be delayed by at least a day.

Taking a look at the exim backport for oldstable[1] you will note that
backporting of 4.89-2+deb9u2 and 4.89-2+deb9u3 was delayed much longer.
The reason for that is a simple one, I forgot. :-(

cu Andreas

http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.89-2+deb9u3~bpo8+1_changelog

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