[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#851986: Bug#851986: Bug#851986: rt-extension-sla: Obsolete with RT 4.4

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 01:44:05AM +0100, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 03:38:31PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > Source: rt-extension-sla
> > Version: 1.04-2
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: obsolete, uninstallable
> > 
> > With the upload of RT 4.4 to unstable, this separate package is
> > obsoleted - RT 4.4 includes the SLA functionality out of the box. As
> > such, rt-extension-sla should not be released with stretch.
> 
> Thanks for reporting this; you are right.
> 
> FWIW; rt-extension-sla has been packaged to be useful for people running
> jessie/stable.  I am running it on jessie production systems.
> 
> I am wondering if it would be usefull to have rt-extension-sla in unstable for
> the next couple of months...  Unfortunately, as long as it is not in testing,
> it can't be in backports either; due to the backports policy :( .

Yes, that is rather unfortunate :( I have no objections to keeping
it unstable for a while to support backporting, even if it only appears
in an unofficial backports repository (roll on, PPAs!)

Cheers,
Dominic.