Hi, all, On الثلاثاء 11 آب 2015 00:59, Andreas Tille wrote: >>From my personal point of view its similar: Debian has a quite > sophisticated infrastucture. Setting up something thats not even > comparable would drain maintenance time I could use for more progressive > things. I for myself had even ignored backports in the past but I > started to upload some selected packages recently since there might be > some chance that it will be used in the foreseable future by my > institute. From my usage backports (with all the delay issues it might > have) is sufficient - if not some local mirror will do to come over some > delays. > >>From a strategic point of view I'm not sure that some extra > infrastucture will support the idea of convergence to collect people > behind a common idea.
Even with the current system in Debian, this can be somewhat automated--for example, setting up a machine to respond to the testing migration emails by triggering a rebuild of a package on a Stable chroot and, if it succeeds and passes tests, to automatically prepare the package and upload to backports. I could look into doing part of this, but I obviously can't do any uploads, automated or otherwise. If I ever get to become a DD, I could then look into taking care of this whole process. We would then just need to keep track of a list of packages that should be backported. regards Afif -- Afif Elghraoui | عفيف الغراوي http://afif.ghraoui.name
