RE: Using a package from unstable if stable has a bug?


Thank you Graham for the detailed reply. It does explain things very clearly.

Also I was thinking what's the Debian Bug fix policy in situation like this..

For example, what if I file a bug against the watchdog package in Lenny. If the
bug is confirmed by the maintainer, will it ever get fixed in future updates of Lenny?
Or only the critical/serious bugs are only fixed (in the form of security updates)
on a Stable release?

Kushal Koolwal

I do blog at http://blogs.koolwal.net/




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