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Re: firmware-nonfree update

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On Tue, 2019-03-26 at 17:51 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 25/03/2019 18:20, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Tue, 2019-03-05 at 22:00 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 14:05 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > (It
> > > > may be unlikely for old suites to have users with new hardware, however it's
> > > > possible and users that don't have it will be unaffected by the new firmware, so
> > > > it wouldn't hurt to ship it.)
> > > > 
> > > > My branch is for jessie but I can prepare it for stretch too if you think that's
> > > > worth it.
> > > 
> > > The current jessie-security version of firmware-nonfree is really a
> > > backport from stretch.  So I would prefer it if you update the stretch
> > > branch first and then merge that to jessie-security.
> > 
> > I've merged your changes to stretch, uploaded to stretch, and then
> > merged stretch to jessie-security.  Let me know if you want to do the
> > upload to jessie-security or if I should do it.
> 
> I don't mind either way. We should use -4~deb8u2 rather than -5~deb8u1 so that
> we don't (temporarily) have a higher version in jessie than stretch until the
> point release.

I disagree.  An upgrade should not undo security fixes, if we can avoid
it.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Beware of bugs in the above code;
I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Donald Knuth

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