Re: Package broke in stable due to old API. Fix in stable or backports?
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 12:15 AM Yao Wei <mwei@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a package `meteo-qt` which is broke due to the use of old API,
> which is reported here:
> https://bugs.debian.org/960451
>
> There should be many existing cases, that external service the stable
> package is using deprecates the old API, which in turn breaks the
> package. Do we have documented conventions that where the fixed package
> should be uploaded to: stable-proposed-updates or backports?
>
Usually you need to backport the relevant patch, instead of uploading
a new upstream version to stable.
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Shengjing Zhu
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