Re: Intent to backport pyinstaller and pyinstaller-hooks-contrib

Hi

On 30-08-2025 21:40, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> Because pyinstaller is a
> package that moves quickly upstream, and because of how pyinstaller needs to
> be updated to correctly interact with other packages, trixie users of
> pyinstaller will usually want to be running a current version from backports.


I hope there's still significant value for the version in stable? This 
sounds a bit like this package shouldn't be in stable and rather 
provided via fastrack [1]? backports is not meant to fix issues in 
stable, but rather to deliver new features.

Paul

[1] https://fasttrack.debian.net/

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