On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 22:48 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Fri, 2015-08-21 at 12:24 +0200, Carsten Schoenert wrote: > > due the GCC-5 transition we would like to upload the current Icedove ESR > > version (aka Thunderbird 38.2.0) to proposed updates for jessie. > > > > The latest beta version 40.0~b1 is uploaded several days ago to > > experimental and the previous version 38.1.0-1 is currently in unstable. > > > > Due not go out of sync to current upstream versions we would like to > > place a recent version into stretch via proposed updated. > > By "recent" you apparently mean "newer than unstable". That's *not* how > things work - testing should at all times be no newer than unstable. > > Backporting the current sid package to stretch might make sense, > parachuting in a new upstream direct to testing does not. I'm seriously > tempted to remove the package from tpu right now.
In fact, I've just done that. Admittedly we should have spotted the issue earlier, but it hadn't occurred to me at least that you'd try to "backport" a newer version to testing in that manner. Regards, Adam
