On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:49:37AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
I'm currently undecided whether I think it's useful to file wishlist bugs against transitional dummy packages which only are that since stretch. What do you think?I probably wouldn't bother. Although the project doesn't formally support skip-upgrades, a fair few maintainers probably do so informally.
It does make backports easier. More than one generation back, though, the value diminishes rapidly.
Mike Stone