On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 07:27:10PM +0200, Andreas Hoenen wrote: > Changing this in stretch dblatex is easy (with a new version 0.3.9-3), > but I'm not sure how a corresponding change in jessie dblatex (with a > new version 0.3.5-3) would reach the jessie installations out there: is > there any mechanism that upgrades jessie installations to the most > recent jessie packages first before upgrading to stretch in a second > step?
There's no mechanism for forcing upgrades through a middle version, no. You can write something in the release notes asking to upgrade certain packages before others, though. > Or is it something that the users are told in the release notes? > The only requirement I'm able to find there is upgrading to the latest > stable point release [1]. Are there plans for a final jessie point > release? You'd have to ask the release managers for this. > Another question: after releasing new dblatex jessie version 0.3.5-3, I > need to incorporate the new jessie changelog entry into the changelog of > the new dblatex stretch version 0.3.9-3, don't I? Although this will > add to the differences between 0.3.9-2 and 0.3.9-3, which the release > managers request to keep as minimal as possible. No, you don't need to do this. Packages can diverge, and the BTS understands it. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: https://www.sesse.net/
