[Pkg-xfce-devel] XFCE 4.12 backport for Jessie

Vincent Cheng vcheng at debian.org
Fri Aug 21 18:02:10 UTC 2015


On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Laércio de Sousa
<laerciosousa at sme-mogidascruzes.sp.gov.br> wrote:
> After investigating their current binary versions in stretch (I'm only
> watching on their source versions until now, and I'm not aware about binNMUs
> before), I just realized that a "+b1~bop8+1" could be a good suffix for
> those jessie packages that only need to be rebuilt against backported new
> libs.

No, a "~bpo8+1" suffix is still correct (it'll always be strictly less
than the version in stretch). If for whatever reason you need to
binNMU packages in backports, you can file binNMU bugs against the
release.debian.org pseudopackage (the resulting packages will have a
suffix of "~bpo8+1+b1").

About backporting xfce 4.12 as a whole...have you discussed this with
the Debian xfce team yet? The initial backport may be manageable, but
is maintaining these backported packages for the entire lifetime of
jessie (and keeping them up-to-date with stretch) feasible? Are you
willing to handle all bug reports associated with these backported
packages?

Regards,
Vincent



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