Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Andreas Schuldei wrote: >> * Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-19 17:02:03]: >> > * Joseph Smidt wrote: >> > > Do you think we will ever see backports officially supported by >> > > Debian? >> > >> > No. >> >> i remember a conversation where you pointed out some principal >> problems (security support, manpower) but in general were in favour >> of the idea and prefered fixing those. what happend? > > Manpower is no longer a problem, thanks to Ganneff we're now using > dak, which means every Debian developer can upload his packages (but I > still need to manually add his gpg key to the backports.org keyring). > > A while back, I talked with Joey about the required infrastructure to > provide security advisories, but until now I had no time to implement > it.
The answer also depends on the understanding of "officially supported". By definition, backports are not part of a release and can never get the same level of support as a stable release gets, like upgrade tests (we already don't support upgrades from n-2 to n, we'll never be able to promise an upgrade path for arbitrary combinations of stable+backports). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)