Bug#1107236: tracker.debian.org: stop showing unmaintained bullseye-backports

Hi Raphael,

I'm responding here as member of the backports team -- at least as good 
as I can.

On 03.06.25 15:05, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jun 2025, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> As announced in
>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-announce/2024/07/msg00000.html,
>> bullseye-backports no longer accepts uploads and should not be expected to
>> be up-to-date with bookworm{,-security}. I think it would make sense to
>> drop it from the "versions" and "versioned links" panels on the package
>> tracker at this point.
> 
> Why?

Fair question, and to be honest I don't have an answer to that. This 
decision predates my deeper involvement in maintaining the backports 
archive. But maybe the other backports-team members can chime in here.

One potential rationale that comes to my mind is: We might want to 
reduce incentives for users of oldstable to stay on oldstable instead of 
updating to stable. Also, we might want contributors to focus on the 
next release instead of focusing on past releases, because given a 
limited amount of resources every hour spent on past release is not 
spent on the next release. Please note, this potential rationale is not 
necessarily my own view -- it's rather some random speculation.

@formorer, would you mind to share your view on this topic?

Best regards,
Micha