Hi
Can anyone clarify the policy for when upstream fixes completed in testing come 
down to stable.

I migrated from Debian 6 to 7 earlier in 2014 once the latest stable distro had 
been out quite some time.  It was a surprise to find that printing did not 
work.  Bug#656640 shows a fix has been made but not moved downstream to stable. 
 A kindly person pointed out how to make my own backport, but that has now 
shown up further printing problems in stable.

My question is seeking to understand the criteria on which a fix is moved down 
to stable.  I think it is likely if the problem were not that printing doesn't 
work but that web servers don't work, it would be fixed in stable overnight.  
So why is printing given second class treatment?  Is it a case yet again of 
"debian is not for desktop users?"  I have seen
 https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#upload-stable
this seems to suggest that once something breaks on a stable desktop it will 
only be fixed if the bug risks crashing the whole system.

By the way - I'm not subscribed to this list so will check back for replies 
occasionally / for a while only.

Thanks.


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