[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#781232: Bug#766884: libxml2 broken in sid for months already

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Sat, 05 Sep 2015, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> My argument is that:
> 
> 1. stable must not have security issues, i.e. all security issues
>    should be fixed ASAP. AFAIK, security issues in stable are
>    generally fixed before unstable.

No, that's not the general case. And feel free to fix stable.
I fixed unstable because it was the right thing to do given
that I was going to upload something to unstable.

> 2. Given (1), if testing version = stable version, it is as easy to
>    fix testing.

This just proves that you don't know how Debian works. A fix for testing
must come via unstable not from stable.

> On the other hand, is it really necessary to have unstable migrate
> to testing right now?

It's the recommended way to get fixes in testing.

This is my last answer in this thread because it's getting ridiculous.

Cheers,
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