adrelanos wrote (21 Nov 2013 17:46:01 GMT) :
> Is Debian policy fine with packages which likely never get into stable?
Yes.
> (Personally, I'd be fine with a testing-only i2p package.)
It's doable, but to prevent a package from going into stable, it must
be dropped from testing at some (late) point of the freeze (generally
thanks to a RC bug called "Should not be part of stable" or
something). This implies that during the [removal from testing, stable
release] time interval, we can't get official backports for the
current stable release. A bit tricky (needs a careful maintainer
and/or coordination with the release team), but still way better than
the current state of things, if you ask me. Alternatively, another way
to do it would be to 1. always keep the package out of testing (with
a permanent "should not migrate to testing" RC bug, just like bitcoind
has); 2. asking the Debian backports FTP masters for a general
exception to be allowed to upload backports of the packages
from unstable.
Cheers,
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