[Pkg-lyx-devel] LyX 2.0.8 in stable?

[Per Olofsson]

Hi,

Den 2014-11-18 15:09, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes skrev:
> We had a bug report on LyX lists from a wheezy user who is currently
> running LyX 2.0.3. While I understand why stable does not use 2.1.2, I
> am wondering whether debian policies would allow to upgrade stable to
> the latest LyX stable branch.
>
> Is this not permitted, or is it rather that you prefer to concentrate
> your work on the testing branch?

In general it is not permitted, no.

Some packages have exceptions (e.g. Firefox/Iceweasel) because it's 
impossible to provide security updates otherwise. There is also a 
backports repository where you can upload newer versions of packages 
built for the stable release.

-- 
Pelle