Hi Christoph,
On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 11:35 PM Christoph Biedl
<debian.a...@manchmal.in-ulm.de> wrote:
>
> (1) The Debian 11 ("bullseye") version of file should be available in
> the backports for Debian 10 ("buster").
A backport is sufficient. I tried to indicate that in the bug title,
but perhaps it was not clear.
In my original filing, I raised the possibility of a security upload
only because you provided them previously (and I saw no backports to
any release). I thought perhaps 'file' was in a class of system
utilities that only received security uploads. A backport is fine.
Lintian's updates also appear in backports and can comfortably depend
on 'file' there.
> >> About (1), I am be happy to provide and extensively test such a
> >> backport, but will not upload for non-technical reasons.
Please let me know if the technical reasoning needs further explanation.
> PS: Please leave it to me when I consider the "moreinfo" requirement
> fulfilled. Since so far it ist not, and I don't think ping-pong is a
> nice game.
Thank you for that comment. We use the same tag for Lintian bugs but
allow reporters to unset it. The associated ping-pong always bothered
me, too. Maybe Lintian should likewise ask reporters to leave the flag
untouched, although it is probably a battle I cannot win.
For a moment, I thought about reinstating the 'moreinfo' tag. That
should be your privilege.
Kind regards,
Felix Lechner
