Re: security mirrors?

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Josip Rodin wrote:
> > On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Josip Rodin via RT wrote:
> > > [joy@villa:/org/mirror.debian.org]% sudo -u archvsync [...]
> [this is me, mirroradm, having privileges over the files that can do the pushing]
> > > joy is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
> >
> > I talked to Joey and since mirror-adm isn't responsible for the sync to
> > the security mirrors there doesn't seem to be a good case for giving you
> > this sudo access.
> 
> I conceded the issue - yes, mirroradm team isn't responsible for the
> security mirrors even though we offered to be - the security team is
> responsible. They have been doing things the way they do them now, since
> at least 2001 (that's how old the security faq entry about this is),
> and have been unwilling to change for the better.
> 
> I am tired of fighting this.

FWIW, I have no interest in managing mirrors of the security archive,
so having the security archive mirrors maintained by the same people
who are managing the other mirrors is fine with me.

Cheers,
        Moritz