Bug#867973: jessie-pu: package wordgrinder/0.5.1-1
On Mon, 10 Jul 2017, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>
> On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 19:44 +0000, David Given wrote:
> > The version in jessie of my package WordGrinder is painfully old and has a
> > number of showstopping bugs (document corruption and loss of data). The next
> > available version in Debian is the version in stable, 0.6-3, which has fixed
> > these bugs and also contains major functionality improvements.
> >
> > 0.6-3 builds on jessie out-of-the-box with no repackaging required, and so I
> > would like to propose the version from stable to be included in the next jessie
> > point release.
>
> That sounds like you're looking for jessie-backports, rather than a
> stable update.
jessie-backports is not for fixing critical bugs like document corruption.
Those should really get fixed in stable (of course not with an upload of the
version in testing).
Alex - Backports ftpmaster
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