Fwd: SP release before March 2020?

[wferi at niif.hu]

Etienne Dysli Metref <etienne.dysli-metref at switch.ch> writes:

> On 28/01/2020 15.01, wferi at niif.hu wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the heads-up; uploaded.
>
> Thank you for the quick turnaround! :D
> Do you intend to also do a stable update for xmltooling? That bug fix
> looks like a worthy candidate.

Maybe, I haven't evaluated it yet.  Actually, I didn't even know about
the bug.  Opening one in the Debian BTS would certainly improve the
chances of gaining the approval of the Stable Release Team (hint :).

> I also saw your security update of xml-security-c in buster.

I guess you mean the stretch (oldstable) update.

> I'd like to integrate this into the debian/jessie-backports branch
> even though this channel is long closed, in case someone wants to
> build a fixed version for jessie. Is it ok if I update the changelog
> but leave that version as unreleased?

I can't see anything wrong with merging debian/stretch into
debian/jessie-backports again, and adding a new changelog entry for
xml-security-c (1.7.3-4+deb9u2~bpo8+1) jessie-backports.  If this is
what you're after, I can do this easily.  Leaving the distribution as
UNRELEASED would communicate work-in-progress in my opinion, so I'd vote
for leaving off the debian tag only.

> This patch could also be pushed to Ubuntu bionic and xenial which both
> have 1.7.3.

I'd rather leave that to you. :)
-- 
Regards,
Feri