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Re: Wanted: maintainer for git backport to wheezy



Hi,

Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at> (2013-12-09):
> * Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> [2013-12-06 20:09:40 CET]:
> > Yesterday I noticed that wheezy-backports has git 1.8.4-rc3, which has
> > at least one (important but not super-urgent) security bug that is not
> > present in stable.
> 
>  Please don't abuse backports for bug fixing for stable.  If there is a
> security bug present in stable it should be fixed in stable, not in
> backports for stable.
> 
>  Backports is about having new features available, not about working
> around pushing important bugfixes into stable.  I will question and
> block such backports requests with that reasoning because that's an
> abuse of backports, and doesn't help the stable users.
> 
>  That said, git is always welcome in backports anyway, because of its
> userbase and constant development.  But please don't bring it up with
> the wrong reasoning.

I think you should read (again) what you quoted from Jonathan.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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