On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 22:21 +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jul 2017, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > > 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. > jessie-backports is not for fixing critical bugs like document corruption. > Those should really get fixed in stable (of course not with an upload of the > version in testing).
Yes, true, and sorry for being imprecise. I meant that if the reporter was looking to get newer upstream versions available to users of jessie, rather than specific bug fixes, then backports was a more applicable approach. Regards, Adam
