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Re: Tracker vs. testing: not OK



Francesco Poli wrote:

> > As announced, we do not provide full testing-security for a few weeks.
> 
> I am aware of that (even though I really hope that the meaning of "few"
> is more close to 1 as possible!), but I think this is *not* a good
> reason to show more vulnerabilities in testing than are actually
> present!

No, it's rather two months.
 
> > Most of the issues you listed should be fixed soon by regular testing
> > migration.
> 
> Frankly speaking, I am not overly enthusiast of the meaning of that
> "soon": for instance, wireshark will migrate to testing in 7 days,
> assuming that its build process is successfully completed in the
> meanwhile and the install issues caused by pcre3 get solved in time!
> http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=wireshark
> 
> > In the moodle and mediawiki cases, I've added missing
> > data, and for samizdat, I asked the maintainer if the upload to
> > experimental was intended.
> 
> Thanks for fixing some of the reported inconsistencies.
> However, I think the other missing data should be added too.

Then go work on it. If you have problems with the Subversion license
(for whatever reasons there may be), you can use git-svn.

Cheers,
        Moritz


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