Hi Rodrigo, On 20/10/17 18:30, Rodrigo Campos wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 06:13:29PM +0100, James Clarke wrote: >> On 20 Oct 2017, at 18:06, Rodrigo Campos <rodrigo@sdfg.com.ar> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 04:55:04PM +0100, Jim Leek wrote: >>>> Hi Rodrigo, >>>> >>>> is 4.8.2+dfsg-2 the correct version for the jessie-backport? >>> >>> Sorry, not sure what you mean. >>> >>> 4.8.2+dfsg-2 is the latest version in unstable and testing now, right? That is >>> what I say I can backport to jessie. >> >> No. Packages in jessie-backports, aka *old*stable, must come from stretch, aka >> *stable*, which is currently on 4.7.5+dfsg-2+deb9u1 and contains the security >> fixes you're after. That is the version that should be backported. > > Ah, I didn't know that. Thanks! > > Also, while we are there, I don't have an old-stable server anymore so I'm still > doing the backport for jessie, but not really test it, etc. Is there any policy > with backports once the distribution becomes oldstable? My team (of which Jim is a member) still runs a jessie server with a backported version of Wordpress (hence our interest!), and we'd be happy to do basic testing of the package before it got uploaded to the archive. Best wishes, Michael -- Michael Howe Unix Platform Services Team Leader IT Services, University of Oxford
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