On Jo, 15 oct 20, 21:53:30, Brett Gilio wrote:
>
> FWIW, I think this is an issue of backports needing a new build.
> https://salsa.debian.org/eugulixes-guest/elixir-lang/-/blob/cf069ab098dd36f11d9ee49f818e6ecbab4f7114/debian/control
> shows the same conditions, but I would guess that bumping erlang to 21
> and rebuilding elixir would fix the issue. You might file this as a bug
> report.
Bumping versions in stable is a no-go for Debian (Stable Release
Managers), with very few exceptions for very specific packages that have
few or no reverse dependencies (Firefox ESR and Chrome being notable
examples).
$ apt-cache rdepends erlang-base | wc -l
283
See also:
https://www.debian.org/security/faq#oldversion
https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#browser-security
In general it is possible to upload a newer version of a dependency to
backports as well.
For this particular case it appears the issue is with how the backport
was made, so fixing it by bumping the version of its dependency is
probably a bad idea.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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