On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 10:26 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> It's not serious for Debian since the package never entered testing in
> the first place.
>
> > I've prepared an NMU for sane-backends (versioned as 1.0.27-3.2) and
> > uploaded it to DELAYED/15. Please feel free to tell me if I
> > should delay it longer.
>
> I disagree with change as this particular version of sane never left
> unstable. Please don't add kludges to support something which is not
> supported in the first place.

Are you telling me that it's not supported to be able to smoothly
upgrade unstable?

The issue that the DELAYED NMU fixes is that anyone who installed
sane-backends from unstable during the 3 months before 1.0.27-3.1 was
released are unable to upgrade to 3.1 without manually telling apt how
to do the upgrade.

This is easy to test: just install the 1.0.27-3 binaries (making sure
you don't have any 3.1 stuff) in Buster or Unstable, then try to run
apt dist-upgrade or apt upgrade.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

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