> On 9 Jul 2017, at 19:43, David Given <dg@cowlark.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 at 16:47 Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> >Yes, updating the version in jessie would be much more preferable --- but I didn't know it was possible; I thought jessie was frozen since release. How does it work?
>>
>> open a bug against release.debian.org, selecting "p-u" (proposed updates), and post on that bug your proposed debdiff
>> with a brief analysis or bug references and why you need the fix go in the next point release, speaking that
>> the bug is fixed in buster.
>>
>> Once you get an ack from them, come here (or directly to me, or debian-mentors) and ask for sponsorship.
>> the fix should be called jessie_version+deb8u1
>
> I've tried to read up on how to do this. The Debian bug system makes me sad. (Is there really still no web interface?)
>
> What do you mean by 'open a bug against'? Do you mean tag, user, owner? Using release.debian.org as a package name seems wrong. Can you expand?
Yes, it's a pseudo-package[1]. Use `reportbug release.debian.org` from a Debian
system, as it will ensure the bug is appropriately tagged to show up as a
proposed update. You can see all the current jessie-pu bugs here[2].
James
[1] https://www.debian.org/Bugs/pseudo-packages
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=release.debian.org;user=release.debian.org@packages.debian.org;usertags=p-u;tag=jessie