David Given <dg@cowlark.com> (2017-07-10): > Well, I actually approached backports, and they firmly told me to come > here instead (and even provided instructions)... > > Okay, so what now? I don't really want a backport anyway; I just want > the version that's currently in stable pushed to jessie as well. That > version has been in Debian since late 2015, so it's not precisely new; > it's not like I'm proposing an unstable version. > > I do *not* want the package removed from jessie. It turns out there's > still a fair number of people who use it, on jessie, and I want to make > sure that they're supported. Then extract targeted patches to fix specific bugs in jessie, and propose a smaller debdiff/diffstat than the one Adam pointed out. KiBi.
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