Well, I actually approached backports, and they firmly told me to come here instead (and even provided instructions)...
Okay, so what now? I don't really want a backport anyway; I just want the version that's currently in stable pushed to jessie as well. That version has been in Debian since late 2015, so it's not precisely new; it's not like I'm proposing an unstable version. I do *not* want the package removed from jessie. It turns out there's still a fair number of people who use it, on jessie, and I want to make sure that they're supported. On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 at 22:27 Adam D. Barratt <a...@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote: > 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 > > -- ┌─── http://cowlark.com ─── │ "There is nothing in the world so dangerous --- and I mean *nothing* │ --- as a children's story that happens to be true." --- Master Li Kao, │ _The Bridge of Birds_
