Freeze of Debian 8.0 "jessie"

[Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum]

When 8.1 becomes 8.2 and 8.3, people developing on 8.1 will need to
choose whether to continue their work in 8.2 or 8.3.  This is
intentional.  Local branches need to be rebased before push anyway,
only the upstream branch config needs to be changed as a result of the
split.  I don't think a "git branch --set-upstream" every other year
or so is that much of a hassle...  OTOH it is good to be aware that a
split has happened and to think about which line is suitable for your
continued work.