[Debian-ha-maintainers] Debconf apologies & BoF

[Alexander Wirt]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2015, Ferenc Wagner wrote:

> Matthew Vernon <matthew at debian.org> writes:
> 
> > I very much regret that I've had to cancel my trip to Debconf this
> > year, having broken my foot :-(
> 
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> What a pity!  We wish you a quick recovery.
> 
> > get a plan together for having the pacemaker stack useable for Jessie
> > [...] we need something suitable for our users, which to my mind means
> > a stable set of packages in jessie-backports
> 
> There were concerns raised about using the jessie-backports repo only.
> Basically, what happens when we package a new upstream release of some
> component of the stack?  Do we backport that when it reaches testing?
> People running production setups wouldn't be happy about that.  On the
> other hand, occasional critical fixes should be backported and made
> available to such "stable" setups.  On the other hand we can't push for
> a stable update, because libqb and corosync is present in jessie and
> their stable versions are supposedly used by other packages in stable.
> 
> To sum up: a PPA seems necessary, unless we declare that our jessie
> backports won't follow new versions in testing, only receive occasional
> critical stable updates.
> 
> Everybody please share your opinions on the view presented above and the
> backport policy we should advertise.  Or add other options to discuss.
It is not your job to define a backports policy. The backports policy is
defined and we (the backports ftpmasters) expect you to follow it and update
the backport regulary with the version(s) in testing.

Alex - Debian Backports ftp-master