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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