Hi Jakub, Good news: I found a sponsor willing to backport BIRD2 in Debian.
Over the weekend I'll try to further prepare a .dsc that gets through lintian. Formally only packages (and versions) in testing are allowed in Backports. That is: 2.0.7-4.1 and not 2.0.8. I'll go for both versions and we'll see soon enough what will be accepted, or not. About modifying sources.list(.d): Debian Backports is Debian, not an alien repository. For most Debian purists like myself using Backports is okay but PPA or otherwise.... well... only if really-really-really needed. Cheers, Kees On 09-04-2021 12:02, Jakub Ružička wrote: > I've tired to contact Ondřej several times with varying degrees of > success - he seems very busy so I'm dropping him from CC. I haven't > contacted others, yet. I'll focus on taking over Debian package > maintenance as soon as bird-2.0.8 is available from upstream repos. > > The repo you link is the official source of bird2 Debian packaging which > I forked from because I don't have control yet (I think) and also it's > Debian freeze so I'm not sure I should update debian/master as it can't > reach bullseye. I'll figure that out eventually and let you know. > > Finally, backports are on my mid-term TODO when I get more confident > with my Debian-fu. I'm not familiar with Fasttrack at all. > > It's preferable to have up-to-date packages available directly from > downstream repos without the need to fiddle with external repos, but > that isn't always possible in reality and that's where upstream repos > come in. > > BTW backports still require modifying system sources.list like adding > external repo - is it a big difference to use OBS (or any other > upstream) instead of debian backports one (for the time being)? 🤔 >
