Re: Wanted: maintainer for git backport to wheezy

[Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>]

* Luke Faraone <lfaraone@debian.org> [2013-12-09 23:34:59 CET]:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 11:29:57PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> > * 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.
> 
> Jonathan said the bug was **not** present in stable, but rather was in
> the wheezy-backports package. Therefore, the reasoning (if the facts are
> valid) seems entirely correct.

 Duh, right - thanks Luke and Kibi for pointing it out.

 Thing is, I've seen a fair amount of such reasonings in the past that I
wanted to point that out again.  Hope my point got across properly
anyway, even though it was misdirected. :)

 Enjoy, and sorry for having this wrongly directed.
Rhonda
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