On Mon, 10 Jul 2017, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 19:44 +0000, David Given wrote: > > The version in jessie of my package WordGrinder is painfully old and has a > > number of showstopping bugs (document corruption and loss of data). The next > > available version in Debian is the version in stable, 0.6-3, which has fixed > > these bugs and also contains major functionality improvements. > > > > 0.6-3 builds on jessie out-of-the-box with no repackaging required, and so I > > would like to propose the version from stable to be included in the next > > jessie > > point release. > > That sounds like you're looking for jessie-backports, rather than a > stable update. jessie-backports is not for fixing critical bugs like document corruption. Those should really get fixed in stable (of course not with an upload of the version in testing).
Alex - Backports ftpmaster
