Dear Simon, Thanks for getting back to me on this.
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 01:34:59PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > The .deb of ikiwiki in testing/unstable is installable on stable, and I > intend to keep that true (it doesn't contain any compiled code, so there > are no ABI issues). My own "production" ikiwiki installation uses > ikiwiki from unstable on an otherwise stable/backports system, and I > test new ikiwiki versions that way before uploading them to unstable. > > My understanding had been that the backports ftp-masters prefer not to > have rebuilt software included in backports if the .deb in testing could > just have been installed on stable without recompilation, which is true > here. Okay. If that's the policy then a backport would indeed be inappropriate. > If I'm wrong about that policy, I'd prefer to handle the backports > myself (which wouldn't need sponsorship), to ensure that backports > doesn't lag behind testing in future. If I do that, I'll test the > proposed backport on stable/backports at release time, then delay > uploading it until the new upstable version reaches testing. It would be > great if there was an upload queue which would do this automatically. Sounds reasonable. > You are of course very welcome to participate in ikiwiki > development/maintenance, which mainly takes place upstream > (<http://ikiwiki.info/>). I'm afraid I don't know perl! Maybe there'll be an opportunity to contribute something or other in the future though :) Sean
