Bug#990956: uploading lintian-brush to testing-proposed-updates

[Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@debian.org>]

Hi Paul,

On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 08:35:07PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> On 11-07-2021 19:44, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > Can I upload a small fix for lintian-brush to testing-proposed-updates to allow
> > it to remain in testing? I just found out an old FTBFS bug is still affecting
> > it in testing, and there's a much newer version in unstable.
> 
> That's not why we have t-p-u. We really prefer you to revert the new
> upstream release in unstable (using e.g. +really version number). See
> also our FAQ [1].

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately this is something that I get caught up
in my workflow around every release - having to switch to uploading to
experimental for some packages rather than unstable. I really should have
paid more attention to that, rather than creating this mess. :-/

It's going to be tricky to get this resolved in time before the removal of
lintian-brush from testing. Of the reverse dependencies, routine-update can
hopefully be updated easily (I've already pinged Andreas) to skip lintian-brush
and silver-platter should probably not make it into bullseye (I've just filed a
removal request for it).

Jelmer