Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Will Lowe <harpo@thebackrow.net> writes:

> My argument is just that even if you backport the important features
> of a new release into an old codebase, it's hard to make any valuable
> claims about the resulting product if the "backport" changes more than
> a few lines of code.

This is true if you don't know what you just did.  If you know what
you did, you may well be able to make a claim like "no new command
line features are added".