On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 12:33 +0200, Sébastien Delafond wrote: > On Jul/24, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > If it stays in testing, it will go into the next stable and you then > > need to support some arbitrary version for ~3 years. > > OK, I initially thought it was the mention about the caveats in the > package's description that led to your request.
It is mostly about the caveats in the description.
> About the arbitrary version, I plan on asking upstream to tag his source
> tree at a commit he considers stable-ish, so the resulting packaged
> version doesn't look like a plain arbitrary snapshot.
That would be a good step.
Also, please do make sure that whatever version goes into jessie works
with the official kernel packages for jessie (which will be either 3.14
or 3.16, to be decided soon).
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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