Hi Pali,

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates:

"7. New upstream microreleases

In some cases, when upstream fixes bugs, they do a new microrelease
instead of just sending patches. If all of the changes are appropriate
for an SRU by the criteria above, then it is acceptable (and usually
easier) to just upload the complete new upstream microrelease instead of
backporting the individual patches. Note that some noise introduced by
autoreconf is okay, but making structural changes to the build system
(such as introducing new library dependencies) is generally not."

Since your package doesn't currently have a micro release exception in
Ubuntu, the SRU team will need to examine the entire diff to decide
whether each individual fix meets the criteria for inclusion in a stable
release update. I'm sure they're capable of generating the diff
themselves, but making life easier for them and providing some specific
commentary to them on what is going on will probably be useful.

Please still submit a debdiff against Vivid that provides the change to
debian/changelog so a sponsor can review and upload exactly what you
want. I'd expect a new entry in debian/changelog at a minimum, with a
description of what the update does and why, a reference to this bug,
targetting the release(s) you want and with a version number that works
(see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/UpdatePreparation#Update_the_packaging
for a guide).

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