Re: Security updates to wheezy-backports vs. -sloppy
* Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [160117 18:42]:
> Mainly I just want to confirm that it's OK to cherry-pick security
> patches in this way, rather than the alternative of telling
> wheezy-backports users that they have to use wheezy-backports-sloppy to
> get security fixes.
The contribute instructions[1] (in my reading) explicitly allow this:
"Of course there are some exceptions: Security updates. If your
package had a security update you can upload a new backport even if
its not yet in testing."
Obviously care neds to be taken to not break the upgrade path / version
numbering scheme.
I'd base the wheezy-backports upload on the jessie-security
version, but you'd know best what to base your upload on.
[1] http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/
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