[lubuntu-devel] Policy RFC - content of Backports repository

[Simon Quigley]

I can understand that when it comes to Backports, definitely. Just know 
that eventually, once CI is rolling, Britney will handle migration of 
packages from Backports Staging to Backports (with a ~= 7 day aging 
period, much like Debian). We already have most of the code written for 
that, I just need to rebase it on a modern britney2-ubuntu.

This would only be a problem for packages outside of the archive. At 
that point, it's out of our control and consideration anyway.

I'm more asking in terms of what users expect from Backports. We can fix 
all sorts of bugs in all of your Qt applications, not just LXQt, but it 
depends on what our expectations are.

On 7/20/22 09:39 PM, Thomas Ward wrote:
> With my Backports Team hat on, I would caution you when it comes to Qt 
> libraries.
> 
> We have to be *very* careful backporting major libraries like Qt and 
> such because it can cause incompatibilities across the archive.  So 
> while yes this would be a good idea, we DO have to make sure it's not 
> going to cause major other breakages.  And we have to include the 
> disclaimer on the PPA that "Backports are NOT always guaranteed to be 
> stable!  You may break other things using this PPA!" - which is similar 
> to the Backports repository pocket's notice.
> 
> 
> Just my 2 cents,regardless of what we put in it.
> 
> 
> 
> Thomas
> 
> On 7/20/22 22:33, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 8:52 PM Simon Quigley <simon at tsimonq2.net> wrote:
>>> Dear Lubuntu Team,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for some opinions on what exactly backports should contain
>>> long-term. I believe we should only provide support for the LTS release,
>>> but should we update any KDE Frameworks or Qt libraries to fix some more
>>> general bugs? I'm not in favor of fully providing e.g. KDE Gear or
>>> Plasma, but we could probably grab the Frameworks builds from Kubuntu
>>> Backports.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
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>> Given the fact that there are multiple LXQt bugs that are actually Qt
>> bugs, I think it's a very good idea to update Qt at least. We will
>> probably need to wait until LXQt has official support for Qt6, though.
>> As for Frameworks, I'm not sure what that's used for, so I don't have
>> a comment on that.
>>
> 

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