Hi, > Surely "Closes:" is very convenient, but wouldn't you agree that this > puts the users of Stable at a disadvantage?
Well, "stable" means old software with old bugs. Those who want the new bugs, which are introduced by fixing the old ones, have to run something else. I understand that fixes for severe bugs get backported to stable and even oldstable if they are important enough, and feasible, and the maintainers take action. As upstream developer and auxiliary package preparer i only experienced this once: https://tracker.debian.org/news/1092508/accepted-libburn-150-1deb10u1-source-into-proposed-updates-stable-new-proposed-updates/ along the rules of https://www.debian.org/releases/proposed-updates Have a nice day :) Thomas
