[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] please remove bitcoin from backports

[Dmitry Smirnov]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 07:48:00 Scott Howard wrote:
> There has been multiple requests from multiple upstream devs and DDs
> to remove bitcoin from the backports repository. The most important
> one, for now, is that there is no upgrade path to testing since the
> package is not (and will not) be in testing, and the package has never
> been part of a stable release. The package in bpo is actually
> incompatible with the current bitcoin network and is dangerous to
> users (and the network).

What I don't understand is why wouldn't you just upload up-to-date
version to backports?

Besides it would be nice to see any well justified removal requests,
especially from upstream developers.

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 Dmitry Smirnov
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