Hi, On 19/06/2020 23:29, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > In the DLA needed entry for libdatetime-timezone-perl you have > mentioned that we need to wait for oldstable update via point release > before the LTS update is made. When looking at the version numbers for > the different releases I fail to see the necessity of that. > > Have I missed something? Or is this note false?
>From what I understand, we want to provide 2020a-0+deb8u1 but if we do before 2019c-0+deb9u1 -> 2020a-0+deb9u1 is done on stretch, people who upgrade jessie -> stretch will retain the jessie package (while they should use the stretch package). See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=958995 Cheers! Sylvain
