Hi,
there is one thing to be mentioned because that's frequently
misunderstood by upstream authors who just want their program in Debian.
On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 04:55:15PM +0200, Andreas Røsdal wrote:
I am pretty sure I can handle doing the Debian packaging. I expect there to
be frequent releases.
Please do only package your program for Debian when yoU're willing to do
at least security support for the one upstream version that happens to
be in Debian testing when we freeze, until the point when security
support for the following stable release ends. Expect this to be over a
period of at least three years.
You cannot fix a security issue in Debian stable by just uploading the
new version of your program, you need to built a patch that only fixes
the security issue while keeping everything else in the package at the
state it was in at the release of the respective Debian stable.
Greetings
Marc
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