[DRE-maint] Bug#867533: test failure when updating to 3.9.0

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 11:59:00AM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> On 07/08/2017 07:47 AM, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> >
> > This seems wrong. If you get a failure after trying to update the
> > package to 3.9.0, by definition the bug cannot be against version 3.8.2
> > (which does not exist in Debian BTW, you missed the Debian revision
> > number).
> >
> > IMO the BTS should be used for bugs that are not present in the Debian
> > archive.
> 
> But we do file bugs to updating new upstream releases against the
> existing versions. How this is different? If I retitle the bug to
> "update to latest upstream release", would it be okay?

It would sound better, yes. "the version in the archive is not recent
enough" is an issue with a package that is in debian; "this new version
that is not in the archive does not work" is not.
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