On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 11:59:00AM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On 07/08/2017 07:47 AM, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > > > This seems wrong. If you get a failure after trying to update the > > package to 3.9.0, by definition the bug cannot be against version 3.8.2 > > (which does not exist in Debian BTW, you missed the Debian revision > > number). > > > > IMO the BTS should be used for bugs that are not present in the Debian > > archive. > > But we do file bugs to updating new upstream releases against the > existing versions. How this is different? If I retitle the bug to > "update to latest upstream release", would it be okay?
It would sound better, yes. "the version in the archive is not recent enough" is an issue with a package that is in debian; "this new version that is not in the archive does not work" is not.
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