Requesting squeeze-backport of python-debian

[Gerfried Fuchs]

   Hi,

* Iain Lane <laney at debian.org> [2011-12-24 19:34:32 CET]:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 07:00:19PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 17:44:57 +0000, Iain Lane wrote:
> > 
> > > Hiya,
> > > 
> > > I'd quite like to fix #637524 in UDD, and for this we need the newer
> > > python-debian on the UDD host with the fix for #597249.
> > > 
> > Or you could just fix that bug in stable.
> 
> Someone could. Thank you for your friendly reply.

 Actually, you might consider Julien's reply terse, but he is right (and
wasn't unfriendly even you might consider it so):

 Backports is NOT about getting bugfixes into stable but about getting
newer features on stable.  The bug is affecting the package in stable
and the proper fix for the bug is NOT a backport of a newer version but
applying the patch that seems to be in the newer version onto the stable
release.

 Again, backports is about getting newer features into stable, not about
getting bugfixes into stable.  Bugfixes should/have to go through stable
updates.

 Thanks,
Rhonda [with backports team member hat on]
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