Re: Should a serious bug have made in into bullseye 11.5?

[Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk>]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 09:23:17PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote:
> > Should https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1017944 have
> > made it into debian 11.5? I thought serious bugs shouldn't make it into
> > stable?
>
> Bugs have to be discovered and reported.  If nobody found this during
> the bullseye testing cycle, then it's quite likely bullseye would ship
> with this bug.
>
> I note that the bug report was reported August 22, 2022, over one year
> after the bullseye release.  Maybe this package just doesn't have many
> users, or the bug didn't affect most of its users.
The buggy package was added to bullseye with the 11.5 point release on
2022-09-10. It wasn't present in 11.4 whose version of this package
worked. It was added to proposed-updates on 2022-08-06.

Based on the comments in thw bug it looks like the breakage was due to
the changing to use debhelper 13 instead of 10.