Hi Jörg, On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Jörg Frings-Fürst <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > on ipmitool exist a bug[1] to add "Dell 13G server" support. > > Therefore my questions: > > - Does Debian have rules when backports are possible? > - What is your opinion about this backport? >
Sven answered your question with regards to backports, but another approach you may want to consider would be to backport this patch on top of the current ipmitool package in wheezy, and make it available to users as part of the next stable update (presumably 7.7). This has the advantage that users on wheezy will get an updated ipmitool package once they upgrade to the next stable point release, whereas with backports they must specifically add the backports repo to their APT sources and choose to explicitly install the backported package. The release team's criteria for accepting an updated package into a point release is obviously much more strict than getting a package into backports, but it's still something to consider assuming that the required changes are fairly minimal and easy to review (i.e. try to make the debdiff that you send to the release team as small as possible). See devref 5.5.1 [1] for a description of the entire process. Regards, Vincent [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#upload-stable -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caczd_tanvvybuoe6tohx+zps6eqaocjdavucdspz-9l6vv1...@mail.gmail.com
