Hi, Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at> (2013-12-09): > * Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> [2013-12-06 20:09:40 CET]: > > Yesterday I noticed that wheezy-backports has git 1.8.4-rc3, which has > > at least one (important but not super-urgent) security bug that is not > > present in stable. > > Please don't abuse backports for bug fixing for stable. If there is a > security bug present in stable it should be fixed in stable, not in > backports for stable. > > Backports is about having new features available, not about working > around pushing important bugfixes into stable. I will question and > block such backports requests with that reasoning because that's an > abuse of backports, and doesn't help the stable users. > > That said, git is always welcome in backports anyway, because of its > userbase and constant development. But please don't bring it up with > the wrong reasoning. I think you should read (again) what you quoted from Jonathan. Mraw, KiBi.
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