On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 09:24:17PM +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hello,
>
> >This fixed the bug for unstable, but the new upstream version won't be
> >acceptable for fixing the bug in stretch.
> >
> >Please make an additional upload to stretch only fixing #858633
> >on top of 3.7.0.0+dfsg1-1
>
>
> before uploading I tried hard to make a patch being extracted, avoiding
> this version in unstable.
> Unfortunately seems that fixing this issue is equivalent than updating to a
> new
> release, so having the package out of Stretch is the only "fix" we can
> provide.
>...
You can try send an unblock request for the version in unstable with
that rationale.
Worst case is that the release team says "No", which isn't different
from what you get if you aren't asking...
> G.
cu
Adrian
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