Re: How to deal with non-functional package in stretch? (Was: Bug#897605: profphd failure in stretch)

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

Hi Andreas,

On 04/05/18 09:27, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi release team,
> 
> it turned out that profphd is non-functional in stretch (see bug
> #897605).  Since its not obviously a security issue we are wondering
> whether there is some way to integrate this admittedly low popcon
> package into Debian 9.5 (whenever this might be released).

If it is non functional, shouldn't the severity be adjusted?

Sorry, I don't have the time to go through all the bug log. But yes, there is a
procedure to update packages in stable, it's called a stable update. Please file
a stable-pu bug with `reportbug release.debian.org' and attach a debdiff built
and tested against stretch.

Thanks,
Emilio