On Mon, 8 Jul 2024, Thomas Ward wrote:
> > Hello. > > > > The Universe package XCA is a tool for creating and managing X.509 > certificates, certificate requests, RSA/DSA/EC private keys, Smartcard > integrations, and CRLs. It is designed so that > a CA can be fully functional from the tooling itself (except for OCSP > responders, etc.). > > > > There are changes that happen to the XCA package that include changes that > break reverse compatibility due to feature changes, etc. and in turn is why I > backported XCA recently. > > > > I am the Debian package maintainer as well as the Ubuntu ‘maintainer’. It > has no reverse dependencies, and it is recommended that the latest version of > XCA be used instead of differing > versions because sometimes things get added to the underlying DB (SQLite, > etc.) format that needs latest versions to work with because of occasionally > reverse-incompatible changes. > > > > Therefore, because of newer features and changes that are beyond just bug > fixes, it is prudent to have the version in Devel match the version in stable > releases. > > > > To that end, I’d like to request a backports exception for src:xca so that I > can continue to provide the backported versions regularly to current > supported LTS releases. > First, sorry for my obviously very late reply :-) This all sounds like xca falls into the normal case for backported packages, so unless I'm misunderstanding, it doesn't seem like any exception is required? > > > > > Thomas Ward > Debian Maintainer of src:xca > > Ubuntu Core Developer > > >
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