<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#2e3436" link="#2a76c6" vlink="#2e3436"><div>Hi Paul</div><div><br></div><div>On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 20:15 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>Hi Abou,
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You could have just created a stretch branch from the version currently
in stretch and work on the updated stretch package there. What you now
have in unstable is great to have the bug marked fixed in unstable, but
isn't really going to help in getting the fix in stretch.
<a href="https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.en.html#upload-stable">https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.en.html#upload-stable</a><br></pre><pre></pre></blockquote><div>Thank you for that link.</div><div><br></div><div>I started reading some bugs against release.debian.org to see how people proceed, and found that release manger asks sometimes to fix first in unstable as in [1].</div><div><br></div><div>I think this good as a kind of proof that the fix does not break anything and really fixes the issue.</div><div>Of course in our case the fix is so small, but I'm anyway going to upload to unstable first. Then I'll create the branch and make the stretch-pu package.</div><div><br></div><div>[1]: <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=864757#10">https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=864757#10</a></div><div><pre>-- <br></pre><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre;">Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir</span></div></body></html>