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charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "buildroot" X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.1 (2024-03-26) on aws-us-west-2-korg-listserv-alma10-1 On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 10:46:05PM +0100, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote: > > The point of LTS branches is to maintain > > them in terms of security fixes and bug fixes, with the same > > functional scope as the original release. They are not designed to add > > new features, otherwise it's a dangerous slippery slope with no limit > > to what can/should be backported. > > Last time I asked about pam_pkcs11 this was no issue. The LTS > maintainers added it. > > I understand it shouldn't be done for complex packages like maybe > Firefox ;), but for so simple packages, why not. > > I speak here with my $work hat on, because we maintain the packages > internally and we use LTS. I just want to cleanup the stack of > external packages and patches. I'll leave it up for the LTS maintainers to decide then. For me, LTS was strictly limited to fixes. Because otherwise it's difficult to draw the line between what is reasonable to add to LTS ("ho, it's just a very simple package") and what isn't reasonable ("oh it's a very simple package, but not completely simple"). Thomas, Titouan, what is your policy? Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training https://bootlin.com _______________________________________________ buildroot mailing list buildroot@buildroot.org https://lists.buildroot.org/mailman/listinfo/buildroot