Helge Deller dixit:

>> No, it needs to have been in the release.
>
> Please help me to understand the dependencies you mention.
> That patch is targetted for dietlibc in unstable.
> Is dietlibc/unstable shipped backwards into oldstable (in which

No, but Debian supports partial upgrades in both directions.
At least in stable, I recall reading oldstable somewhere.
Especially buildds tend to run old kernels, for quite a while,
and releases are the only way Debian has to define boundaries
(even if this isn’t a release arch).

bye,
//mirabilos
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mksh auf jedem System zu installieren.“
        -- XTaran auf der OpenRheinRuhr, ganz begeistert
(EN: “[…]uhr.gz is a reason to install mksh on every system.”)

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