Bug#772856: Please backport .conf.d configuration directory support from 218

[Josh Triplett]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 08:15:27PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 12.12.2014 um 13:53 schrieb Josh Triplett:
> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:34:37AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> Am 12.12.2014 um 00:29 schrieb Josh Triplett:
> 
> >>>> Personally, I wouldn't mind adding support for that, that said, you
> >>>> really need to convince the release team first.
> >>>
> >>> Happy to do so.  Do you want me to file a request with the release team and
> >>> point directly to the upstream diffs, asking if backports of those seem
> >>> acceptable?
> >>
> >> Yes, feel free to do so.
> > 
> > OK, I can do that.
> > 
> 
> Afaics, this hasn't happened yet. Since we are rather late in the
> release cycle, and from now on, only release critical bugs will be
> accepted by the release team, I'm going to reject/close this bug report
> as it is a rather large patch.

I was going to suggest that myself, actually; AFAICT the freeze policy
was *already* "important severity or higher" a month ago, so it wasn't
an option then either.

> What seems more feasible to me, is that we provide a newer version via
> backports, which will already include that functionality.

Sounds reasonable to me.

- Josh Triplett