Control: tags -1 + moreinfo On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 19:44 +0000, David Given wrote: > The version in jessie of my package WordGrinder is painfully old and has a > number of showstopping bugs (document corruption and loss of data). The next > available version in Debian is the version in stable, 0.6-3, which has fixed > these bugs and also contains major functionality improvements. > > 0.6-3 builds on jessie out-of-the-box with no repackaging required, and so I > would like to propose the version from stable to be included in the next > jessie > point release.
That sounds like you're looking for jessie-backports, rather than a stable update. > (No debdiff is attached as it's empty!) It's really not. The relevant debdiff is between the package currently in jessie and the package you're proposing for jessie. Even if it were only the diff for the rebuild that was required, there'd still be at least a debian/changelog entry. $ debdiff /srv/mirrors/debian/pool/main/w/wordgrinder/wordgrinder_0.5.1-1.dsc \ /srv/mirrors/debian/pool/main/w/wordgrinder/wordgrinder_0.6-3.dsc | diffstat -s 139 files changed, 352240 insertions(+), 5172 deletions(-) Filtering out the dictionaries, tests, Windows-related files and embedded copy of the minizip library drops that quite a bit, but still leaves 85 files changed, 6931 insertions(+), 1017 deletions(-) > Disclaimer: as well as being the package maintainer I'm also the upstream > author of WordGrinder (and it's my considered opinion that WordGrinder 0.5.1 > needs to be taken out of circulation as quickly as possible before it starts > hurting people). If it's that bad, we can remove it from jessie if you'd prefer. Regards, Adam
