BIRD 2.0.8

[Kees Meijs | Nefos]

Hi Benjamin,

Thank you for your reply and good work!

Don't worry: I won't break protocol in terms of the freeze.

For now I focus on the testing / unstable version that you commited for
a backports basis.

Regards,
Kees

On 10-04-2021 15:09, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Samstag, den 10.04.2021, 11:56 +0200 schrieb Vincent Bernat:
>>  ❦ 10 avril 2021 11:00 +02, Kees Meijs | Nefos:
>>
>>> 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.
>> You can still upload 2.0.8 in unstable. Add autopkgtest to be allowed to
>> migrate. The hard freeze has not been announced yet. Maybe upstream can
>> tell us if they would prefer a 2.0.7 or a 2.0.8 to be in Debian for 3 to
>> 5 years.
> Please don't upload 2.0.8 to unstable at this point. Debian is in hard
> freeze. Only small, targeted fixes should be uploaded to unstable now.
> See https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html
>
> You can prepare the new version and upload to experimental if you want.
>