Bug#822434: patch for building 8.0.27-1, based on 7.5.18-2

[lumin]

On Thu, 2016-09-29 at 18:51 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> OK, I've updated the rules to download and repack the sources, so
> that
> all of us can start working with the same tarballs :-)

I downloaded the tarball, and I may hopefully finish the patchset
within a week or two. Is this acceptable for Ubuntu freeze exception?
And what about the Debian Stretch freeze?