Re: What to do if newer version approaches in testing before new backport became accepted

[Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de>]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, Andreas Tille wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 10:19:08AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> > > last week I've uploaded jellyfish1 1.1.11-3~bpo9+1 to backports new but
> > > now version jellyfish1 1.1.11-4 progressed to testing.  To save work of
> > > backports ftpmaster I'd like to know what you would prefer:
> > > 
> > >    [ ] Do nothing and leave jellyfish1 1.1.11-3~bpo9+1 in new
> > >    [ ] Upload jellyfish1 1.1.11-4~bpo9+1 to new
> > Feel free to update in NEW if you want. But you can do that also at any later point.
> > I plan to do NEW later today.
> 
> Changes are not really relevant for backport users (just adapted Vcs
> fields, Standards-Version and debhelper) - so we can go with the old
> version if this is not confusing for you to not find the same version in
> testing. 
I don't expect that the exact version is in testing, just that it was in
testing and that the package is still in testing :).

Alex