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Re: Backporting a version older than the one currently in testing



On Mon, 30 May 2016, Sean Whitton wrote:

> Dear backporters,
> 
> It has been requested that I backport the dh_elpa to jessie so that
> useful Emacs addons like Magit can be backported.  The current version
> of dh-elpa in testing is 0.0.21.  However, I want to base my backport on
> version 0.0.19, which was previously in testing.  That's because version
> 0.0.20 introduces functionality and dependencies that I would have to
> disable for the backport, since they require a newer debhelper and I
> consider backporting debhelper unfeasible.
> 
> The backport rules suggest that it is only permitted to backport the
> version *currently* in testing, but is it okay to backport the slightly
> older version instead in this kind of case?
That was discussed several times here. And no, it is not ok.

Alex

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