Hi John, Am Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 02:05:13PM -0500 schrieb John Bize: > Since you mentioned it Tobias, > > In July of last year, I submitted a Debian backport request, but received no > responses. > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2020/07/msg00004.html
Yes, sometimes Debian's mechanics are complicated… I'm sorry that you did not get a response or a result… <speculating> Possibly your request was not seen by the right persons (I likely would have filed the request as a wishlist bug against the net-snmp package or CC'ed the maintainers) The mechanics is also bit complicated because backports intention is not to provide "bug fixing for stable" but to provide new features a new version might have. (uploads trying to fix bugs in stable are indeed usually rejected by the backports team because of this policy) Sure, it's also possible that a maintainer is not interested in maintaining a backports because e.g of the extra work involved; That's clearly the downside of a project done just by volunteers. (Though the good thing is that everyone can get involved if they feel so, and for backports the maintainer might even be a different person than the regular package maintainer…) </speculating> -- Cheers, tobi > Thanks, > > John > > _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list Net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
