[Letsencrypt-devel] Newer releases of certbot in Stretch

[Ondřej Surý]

Ack, that's exactly how it is.

There are some exceptions to this rule, but generally the certbot is and would be updated using -backports.

Ondrej
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018, at 15:43, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-01-11 at 11:04 +0100, Steven Conrad Bayer wrote:
> > we have noticed that since months there was no new release for certbot
> > in Stretch so we want to ask when newer versions will be migrated to 
> > stable (not backports) or if new releaes will only come to backports.
> 
> I'm not involved with letsencrypt packaging but in general Debian
> stable releases only see updates for security issues or (serious) bugs
> and not simply routine version bumps since that would undermine
> "stable" (in the way which Debian uses it) by possibly introducing new
> bugs.
> 
> Security issues and bugs are usually addressed by backporting targeted
> fixes rather than by adding entire new versions (unless there are
> _very_ compelling reasons to do otherwise, such exceptions are at the
> discretion of the stable release managers rather than the individual
> package maintainers).
> 
> Whether things are updated in backports is up to the individual
> maintainers, from https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-certbot it
> seems that the certbot maintainers are keeping backports updated.
> 
> Ian.