[Python-modules-team] python-django_1.8.18-1~bpo8+1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Ian Campbell]

On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 12:53 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Wed, 24 May 2017, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:32:13PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > > Right now, I'm maintaining 1.8.x in jessie-backports, we have
> > > 1.10.x in
> > > stretch. If I disappear and nobody else is willing to maintain
> > > 1.8.x, you
> > > can just backport 1.10.x from stretch into jessie-backports and
> > > you will
> > > be fine.
> > 
> >  
> > why don't you upload 1.10 to jessie-backports?
> 
> It's not an LTS version and most users just want the LTS version. Most
> applications are going to be tested against LTS versions and not against
> non-LTS versions.

Yet 1.10.x is going to be in Stretch, according to [0]? If users want
LTS then why aren't we shipping that in our upcoming stable release
(whether its instead of or in addition to the latest release)?

Ian.

[0] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-django