Subject: Re: adding packages to stable
To: Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org>, Rasmus Thomsen <oss@cogitri.dev>
Cc: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
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From: Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>
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Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 20:16:58 +0200
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Hi,

On 20.07.20 19:06, Kevin Daudt wrote:
>> On Sun, 2020-07-19 at 16:06 +0200, Thomas Liske wrote:
> 
> And to add to that, we do not have a backports repo like debian does,
> though, you could always build such a repo yourself with the packages
> you need.

Home-brew repository are possible in most linux distributions but this 
is a more complex process and other user (community) do not benefit from 
building them. I think it would be nice to have a backports repository 
(used with pinning) for stable releases for alpine some day.

This would allow maintainers/contributors to make edge packages/releases 
available for stable releases. The difference is that those packages are 
compiled against the libraries from stable so there is no problems like 
edge runs on musl 1.2 but stable is on 1.1. This would be similar to 
debian's bpo approach.


Regards,
Thomas