On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 22:21 +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> 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).
Yes, true, and sorry for being imprecise.
I meant that if the reporter was looking to get newer upstream versions
available to users of jessie, rather than specific bug fixes, then
backports was a more applicable approach.
Regards,
Adam