Hi,
Does that also mean that the backport build could leverage Debian's MIPS
build systems?
Reference: https://wiki.debian.org/MIPSPort
On 10/04/2021 12.00, Kees Meijs | Nefos wrote:
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)? 🤔
