----- On Jul 12, 2016, at 5:17 PM, Jon Bernard jbern...@debian.org wrote: > * Michael Jeanson <mjean...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> Hi Jon, >> >> Here is an updated debdiff, it works on a fully updated jessie. Should >> we track these updates in a branch of the collab-maint repo? > > Excellent, thanks. This patch works and I've put it into a dedicated > stable branch 'jessie' so this will be easier to track. > > In looking at the stable update procedure, I need to request permission > to submit an update and I wonder: would it be more valuable to update > our Jessie version (2.5.1) to the latest supported stable version > upstream (2.5.6) and rebase these patches on that version? Give that > upstream supports a stable branch (which I think is unusual, but very > awesome), this looks like a compelling approach. > > Thoughts?
If minor version bumps are allowed in Debian, then it would make a lot more sense to update to the latest 2.5.x bugfix release. Michael
