BIRD 2.0.8

[Skyler Mäntysaari]

Hi,

Does that also mean that the backport build could leverage Debian's MIPS 
build systems?

Reference: https://wiki.debian.org/MIPSPort

On 10/04/2021 12.00, Kees Meijs | Nefos wrote:
> 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)? 🤔
>>