Subject: bitcoind: Status of the Bitcoin Core package in Debian Package: bitcoind Version: 0.18.1~dfsg-1+b1 Severity: wishlist
Hi, This is not a bug report, but I'd like to use it to gather your thoughts on a few meta questions: Are there any users of the package currently? What is the point of maintaining the package when it is only in unstable? I'd presume some of the reasons are identical to the reasons that the firefox package is only in unstable: https://packages.debian.org/sid/firefox ? In the past, the package has been disabled, because security updates were not applied in a timely manner: https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2013/12/msg00062.html Do you think it would be possible to maintain the Debian Bitcoin Core package in stable (or oldstable) in a way that upstream security releases are followed? Note that for firefox there is a firefox-esr version which is kept up to date even for Debian versions released a long time ago. Do you think that the long term support of Debian for releases does not go well with the EOL policy of Bitcoin Core? See https://bitcoincore.org/en/lifecycle/ Thank you for your time, Marco -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)
