Re: Please remove non-lts architectures from wheezy-security
On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 18:51 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> As I understand it, packages are never moved directly from oldstable-
> security to archive.debian.org. Normally they are copied to oldstable
> in a final point release, and then moved to archive.debian.org. In
> this case, there was a point release on 2nd April and none at the
> transition to LTS.
>
> This is fine for the LTS architectures since wheezy-security still
> exists on security.debian.org. But it seems no-one thought through
> how the other architectures' recent security uploads would get
> archived. And since all wheezy LTS uploads are also going into wheezy-
> security, I think we're going to have the same issue at the end of LTS.
>
> So I think there needs to be some kind of pseudo-point-release for
> wheezy to straighten out the non-LTS architectures now, and another one
> at the end of LTS..
There'll be an actual point release for wheezy, as an EOL clean-up as
usual.
Regards,
Adam
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