HEADLINE: Regression fixes from upstream DESCRIPTION: GCC 6.4 will be released soon (July). I wish Debian will get all the regression fixes that this update wi

HEADLINE: Regression fixes from upstream DESCRIPTION: GCC 6.4 will be released soon (July). I wish Debian will get all the regression fixes that this update will bring (according to the new numbering convention, version 6.4 does not mean new features, so no breaking-changes, only fixes). Same for CUDA 8.0.61 (already available for ~5 months) which is a maintenance update after version 8.0.44, the one available in Stretch. I'm saying this because Jessie never got the latest bug fix release (4.9.4) for the 4.9 series of GCC, not even in the backports (it still offers the 4.9.2 instead). I wish there was a policy that allowed regression fixes from upstream to be ported and with the same priority as security fixes. GCC and CUDA are only examples, the same scheme would be applicable to any other package as well. In my view, this would foster Debian adoption on desktops at a higher level. If this can't be done for the current Debian Stable, I hope my (and other people's similar) concerns will be taken into account in the future. As a developer, I care about this level of support. We all love Debian, we'd just like to make it better. Thanks. DISTRIBUTION: Debian Stable