On Sat, 04 Sep 2021 at 17:02:50 +0300, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> On 4.9.2021 11.58, Marc Haber wrote:
> > You're of course free to roll your own, local package. It shold be
> > possible. Just don't expect any official movement in Debian stable,
> > testing or stable-backports until that RC bug is fixed or resolved in
> > some other way.
>
> Why? The bug is about the server, doesn't involve the client in any way
> (other than they're built from the same source)...
At the risk of stating the obvious: testing migration, release-critical
bug monitoring, removals from testing, removals from unstable, etc. all
operate at the level of source packages, not binary packages. A source
package is either suitable for inclusion in stable or it isn't; it is
not possible to include half a source package in stable.
If the client is useful and usable, but the server is RC-buggy, one
possible route would be to stop building the server-related binary
packages until they can be fixed, so that every remaining binary package
is non-RC-buggy.
smcv
