[DRE-maint] Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

Pirate Praveen praveen at onenetbeyond.org
Fri Dec 14 09:37:16 GMT 2018


On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 20:59:59 +0100 Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm at debian.org>
wrote:
> Source: gitlab
> Severity: serious
> 
> Gitlab is too fast-moving with weekly releases and backporting security fixes has already
> failed us for stretch, keep it out of testing.

Just a clarification, major release happens every month, and security
updates are provided for last 3 major releases (so upto 3 months).

> To meaningfully support it for use on stable, this would require some of the
> infrastructure/policy changes discussed in the "What can Debian do to provide
> complex applications to its users" thread from earlier the year on debian-devel.

Would it be okay to close this bug after buster release? That would make
it possible to provide newer versions via buster-backports. For
buster+1, we can remove it from testing again, close to freeze.

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