Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages

On 03/10/2023 19.30, Bastian Blank wrote:
> thread.  Or freak out because meta packages remain uninstallable in
> backports for days.
...
> plus gcc or we change how backports works.

If uninstallable packages in backports are a problem, perhaps backports 
needs something like britney to migrate packages from an uploading area 
to the publishing area (once a package set is installable, no need for 
delays). That should solve the problem where several source packages 
need to be updated together. (It would also solve problems with 
unsatisfiable dependencies where the backporter-uploaded binaries were 
built by accident in sid instead of stable, requiring a binNMU before 
migration.)

(but this should be discussed elsewhere)


Andreas