On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 12:15 AM Yao Wei <m...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a package `meteo-qt` which is broke due to the use of old API, > which is reported here: > https://bugs.debian.org/960451 > > There should be many existing cases, that external service the stable > package is using deprecates the old API, which in turn breaks the > package. Do we have documented conventions that where the fixed package > should be uploaded to: stable-proposed-updates or backports? >
Usually you need to backport the relevant patch, instead of uploading a new upstream version to stable. -- Shengjing Zhu
