> Stripping all useless commits, here is the Debdiff I get. > > Note that the version isn't 3.0.4-3~deb10u1 as 3.0.4-3 contains only > packaging changes that I didn't include. > > Should you wish me to release 3.0.4-3~deb10u1, we would have to make an > empty changelog for 3.0.4-3 over which I could do the changelog entry to > release into buster.
A version generally used in this case would be 3.0.4-0+deb10u1 with the changelog entries squashed together. It's no longer a plain "rebuild", but a new upstream release + selected cherry-picked bugfixes without inappropriate packaging changes. (mariadb and postgresql are prominent users of this scheme.) Andreas (not a member of the release team)