Debian Backports… (Was: Re: Upgrading Net-SNM P to 5.9 on Raspberry Pi OS (i.e. ARMHF Debian 10 Buster)?)

Hi John, 

Am Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 02:05:13PM -0500 schrieb John Bize:
> Since you mentioned it Tobias,
> 
> In July of last year, I submitted a Debian backport request, but received no
> responses.
> 
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2020/07/msg00004.html

Yes, sometimes Debian's mechanics are complicated…

I'm sorry that you did not get a response or a result…

<speculating>
Possibly your request was not seen by the right persons (I likely would have
filed the request as a wishlist bug against the net-snmp package or CC'ed the
maintainers)

The mechanics is also bit complicated because backports intention is not to
provide "bug fixing for stable" but to provide new features a new version might
have. (uploads trying to fix bugs in stable are indeed usually rejected by the
backports team because of this policy)

Sure, it's also possible that a maintainer is not interested in maintaining a
backports because e.g of the extra work involved; That's clearly the downside
of a project done just by volunteers.
(Though the good thing is that everyone can get involved if they feel so, and for
backports the maintainer might even be a different person than the regular
package maintainer…)
</speculating>

-- 
Cheers,
tobi
 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> 


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