[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272: Bug#718272: Bitcoin still not ready for stable release in Debian

[Scott Howard]

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Luke-Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> I agree with Scott's assessment, although I would note that Debian *does* have
> a suite that addresses the needs of Bitcoin: stable-updates. Mandatory
> protocol rule changes would seem to fall within the "broken by the flow of
> time" category. Thoughts?

I think this is the way to go once bitcoin version "1.0" (or the
equivalent) is released. It requires users to enable the
stable-updates repository, but we can put a note in the description
with a hint to do that. It may be confusing for some users to get a
message (or see a post on a forum) that says, "You MUST upgrade to
version 1.6!" then wonder why Debian is distributing version 1.5, even
if it is a patched version 1.5.

Ideally, once it is stable enough for distribution, I'd like to see
someone from upstream (Matt Corallo?) take control of the
bitcoind/bitcoin-qt packages. DDs on the packaging team can sponsor
uploads and make sure things are done in a policy compliant way.