Bug#787419: Serious bug

[Ruben Undheim]

> This actually is not the only annoying bug that is fixed in an upstream
> point release (see #748469 and #771205 for the others).
> 
> As I understand, maintainers are open up to the idea of backporting fixes to
> gtk+3.0 in jessie, but they don't want to deal with stable release team for
> acceptance. See [1] for the message sent today. I thought you might be
> interested in this information.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748469#83

Hi Mert,

Thanks for telling me about this. The stable release team prefer short patches that
only fix very serious things. So I suppose we would have better luck convincing
them to accept 2 or 3 very serious things which have bug reports in the BTS with
high priority, than to pull in the entire 3.14.x bugfix release.

I do obviously think that this bug qualify for that. Apparently #771205 was considered
not release-critical in the freeze time, so we should not include that one then.
#748469 is probably a candidate since it sounds quite annoying although I haven't
experienced it myself.

So if I understand correctly, we could just file a "jessi-pu" bug on release.debian.org
argumenting for that the few worst fixes should be backported including the debdiff, and
then afterwards tell the maintainers about the outcome so that they can take action.

Best regards,
Ruben