Proposal: sunset the backports pockets

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Hi Robie!

Sadly I agree on your problem description.

On 2021-07-19 14:05, Robie Basak wrote:
> I think it's time to ... shut the process down and document this
> properly to stop misleading users about it.

As regards the documentation, yes, it should be dropped (or at least 
hidden for now) so users are not mislead to waste time with backports 
proposals and then are just met with silence.

But personally I would prefer that the backports pocket is still kept. I 
have found the feature to be very useful for certain new packages. It 
lets you make a new package instantly available in all the supported 
releases. These are two examples of what I'm talking about:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus-avro

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus-typing-booster

New packages without reverse dependencies may be easily backported and 
are easy to review, and there is at least one member of the backports 
team around who may be willing to approve well prepared proposals.

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Cheers,

Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj