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Re: Using a package from unstable if stable has a bug?



On Thu,06.Aug.09, 10:19:04, Kushal Koolwal wrote:
> 
> Thank you Graham for the detailed reply. It does explain things very clearly.
> 
> Also I was thinking what's the Debian Bug fix policy in situation like this.
> 
> For example, what if I file a bug against the watchdog package in Lenny. If the
> bug is confirmed by the maintainer, will it ever get fixed in future updates of Lenny?
> Or only the critical/serious bugs are only fixed (in the form of security updates)
> on a Stable release?

Fixes for serious bugs do make it into stable, but the maintainer and/or
the Stable Release Manager have to agree on the severity.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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