Hello list, let's say there is a bug in a stable package and that bug breaks the program functionality. Later the fix was uploaded to unstable/testing but never got in time for stable. For reference I'm talking about http://bugs.debian.org/679657.
I tried 2 ways to solve this: a) I've downloaded the stable version of the package, applied the patch that fixed the problem and built a wheezy-backports package; b) I've downloaded the maintainers git repository (unstable), revert some commits and build a wheezy-backports; Backports exists for recent packages from unstable/testing that were adapted and rebuilt for stable. What I did in a) is not that: I have rebuilt a stable package and applied a patch. If a) is not a backport is it a nmu then? Should I build a) as a stable nmu and try to search for a sponsor to upload it to stable? Can this be done? Or, to have a valid backport of the package, I MUST make b), which is to backport the testing/unstable package? What I'd like is to have the stable version of the package fixed in debian stable, where it is not working, not to have an upgraded package from backports. I hope this email is not to confusing as my doubts :) I'd like to have my doubts cleared because there is at least one more package (avelsieve) I'd like to upload, via nmu or backports, depending on the answers to my doubts. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cap1yx5zj+wut+pyowdcbbm4bxdvatwhfkxdkj9moz_se938...@mail.gmail.com
