Proposal: sunset the backports pockets

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 10:18:08PM +0000, Seth Arnold wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 02:24:30PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> > I'd love to see it working the same way it works in Debian.  With
> > random developers uploading (AND TAKING ON THEM THE RESPONSABILITY TO
> > KEEP IT WORKING AND POSSIBLY UPDATED EVER AFTER), whilst a "team" is
> > only tasked with basically verifying that the version string is sane and
> > won't break update.
> 
> 'Put the responsibility on the uploader' sounds like PPAs.

With one crucial difference: -backports are distributed through
archive.ubuntu.com.
You should not downplay the importance of a name.  Saying that it's the
"official ubuntu backports" kind of gives it some extra assurances of
quality.

> I think part of why -backports hasn't worked for Ubuntu in the time that
> I've been paying attention is that PPAs do a decent job of replacing it.
> Anyone who would be interested in using -backports can instead upload
> to their own PPA and get immediate sucess.
[…]
> ps I was curious to see how many packages are in -backports:

You can see how trusty is full, and then it starts to be smaller and
smaller.  So you can easily see when the process finally "broke".
Of course people use PPA, but I always have a hard time trusting PPAs
from random people in certain settings, so way too often I end up
needing to do my own builds of things.

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