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On Tue, 2025-11-11 at 11:33 +0700, Arnaud Rebillout wrote:
> [ Reason ]
> Mirrorbits 0.6 was released just in time to be included in Debian
> Trixie, however an important regression was discovered later on. It's
> beend fixed in version 0.6.1, but that was too late for Trixie.
> 
> The regression is reported upstream at
> https://github.com/etix/mirrorbits/issues/195.
> 
> This debdiff fixes it, and it also includes another minor fix from
> 0.6.1
> (the fix is trivial, and it's really nice to have).
> [...]
> Initially I wanted to ask to upload the new upstream version 0.6.1
> into Debian stable, rather than cherry-picking the patches. However
> I'm not a regular of uploads in Debian stable, so I thought the
> release team would prefer a minimal debdiff instead (easier to
> review).
> 
> This being said, I believe it would be more correct to also include
> upstream unit tests associated with the regression in the debdiff,
> however if I do that, I'm importing 95% of the changes in 0.6.1, so
> I'd better ask to upload 0.6.1 instead.
> 
> I can still do that if you prefer, at your convenience.

Could we see what a debdiff for that would look like, please.

Regards,

Adam

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