[request-tracker-maintainers] 4.2?

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 01:04:45AM +0100, Kai Storbeck wrote:
> On 02/01/14 21:08, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> > No, but we might want users to have the option of 4.0 backports for
> > a while longer. But maybe I'm just trying to keep everyone happy and
> > doomed to failure :)
> 
> From a sysadmins perspective I am interested in a stable package that
> gets security updates, and no big new features (like changing themes). I
> don't care wether that comes from backports or from a debian release.
> 
> Having a 4.0 backports option would block any 4.2 backports version,
> wouldn't it?

As far as the official debian-backports suite goes, yes (or vice versa).
Upgrading request-tracker4 in unstable to 4.2 pretty much also means that
we can't provide any extra updates of 4.0 to the backports archive.

> Although I don't consider 4.2 that much of an upgrade, and my preference
> does go out to a single package.

Yeah, I think I'm possibly over-thinking things here; it seems that 4.2
is a smaller step than most of the others.

Dominic.