[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Please package Electrum 2.5.1 for Wheezy-Backports - the existing package now throws frequent errors due to incompatibility with newly-standardized BIP62

[Tristan Seligmann]

On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 at 08:05 <gofixit at ruggedinbox.com> wrote:

> Bringing Electrum 2.5.1 to Wheezy-Backports would be an enormous asset to
> the privacy and Bitcoin communities, and help re-affirm Debian's mission
> in making free and effective software available to all, especially to
> those who need it most.
>

Electrum 2.5.1 is not eligible for wheezy-backports, so I guess you meant
wheezy-backports-sloppy (which it would be eligible for, once it
transitions to testing); I will take a look at doing such a backport once
it transitions. Based on the discussion on the Tails Trac that you linked,
it looks like there shouldn't be many obstacles to this.

On a side note, I do have to question the wisdom of trying to keep up with
the Bitcoin network on an operating system released more than 2 years ago;
while I appreciate that it is difficult for a project like Tails to update
quickly, I don't think it really makes sense to rely on backports of
fast-moving software in lieu of updating to newer Debian releases.
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