On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 11:01:41AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Wed, 24 May 2017, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > What is the minimum amount of technical checking that has to be in place 
> > before something like this could be done?
> 
> For the backports team, none. For the maintainer, he must know this policy
> and act accordingly.

The maintainer of the python-django backport not acting according to
policy is what started this discussion.

> If someone reports that it does not work, the maintainer must fix his
> package.
>...

This cannot fix the version in a Replaces or a postinst version check
in the package in the next stable.

cu
Adrian

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