BIRD 2.0.8

[Kees Meijs | Nefos]

Hi Jakub,

Good news: I found a sponsor willing to backport BIRD2 in Debian.

Over the weekend I'll try to further prepare a .dsc that gets through
lintian.

Formally only packages (and versions) in testing are allowed in
Backports. That is: 2.0.7-4.1 and not 2.0.8.

I'll go for both versions and we'll see soon enough what will be
accepted, or not.

About modifying sources.list(.d): Debian Backports is Debian, not an
alien repository. For most Debian purists like myself using Backports is
okay but PPA or otherwise.... well... only if really-really-really needed.

Cheers,
Kees

On 09-04-2021 12:02, Jakub Ružička wrote:
> I've tired to contact Ondřej several times with varying degrees of
> success - he seems very busy so I'm dropping him from CC. I haven't
> contacted others, yet. I'll focus on taking over Debian package
> maintenance as soon as bird-2.0.8 is available from upstream repos.
>
> The repo you link is the official source of bird2 Debian packaging which
> I forked from because I don't have control yet (I think) and also it's
> Debian freeze so I'm not sure I should update debian/master as it can't
> reach bullseye. I'll figure that  out eventually and let you know.
>
> Finally, backports are on my mid-term TODO when I get more confident
> with my Debian-fu. I'm not familiar with Fasttrack at all.
>
> It's preferable to have up-to-date packages available directly from
> downstream repos without the need to fiddle with external repos, but
> that isn't always possible in reality and that's where upstream repos
> come in.
>
> BTW backports still require modifying system sources.list like adding
> external repo - is it a big difference to use OBS (or any other
> upstream) instead of debian backports one (for the time being)? 🤔
>