Control: tags -1 + moreinfo On Mon, 2020-11-02 at 20:05 -0800, Felix Lechner wrote: > The mdadm version in buster suffers from Bug#960132, which a reporter > assessed at the serious level. It was fixed version 4.1-6, but the > version 4.1-8 that is currently in testing includes many new > translations and is probably a better candidate.
"Many new translations" doesn't particularly make a package a good candidate for a stable update. Hardening changes, feature additions and a debhelper bump to a version that's not even in stable certainly don't. The intent of a stable update is to make the changes required to fix the issue being discussed, which in most cases does not mean pulling in a new version of the package from testing. > I believe it is my responsibility per section 3.1.2 of the > Developer's Reference to bring this matter to your attention. That is correct, but as per section 5.5.1 this bug report should also include a debdiff of the package you're proposing to upload, containing the "minimal and relevant" fix. (3.1.2 also mentions "providing a targeted fix".) The example debdiff that a commenter provided in #960132 is more of the type that we'd generally expect, with the assumption that the proposer of a p-u bug has produced said debdiff by building and testing the package in a stable environment. Regards, Adam
