Re: Security team and NMUs
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 02:47:05AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> As some people may have noted we're in the process of creating
> security.debian.org, which will be a location where security
> fixes are installed as fast as possible, without having to
> wait for a daily dinstall and mirror run. To make this truely
> effective though the security team has to be able to make packages
> available as fast as possible.
>
> Therefore I would like to give the security team authorization to
> make a NMU of a package if a security-problem has been discovered
> without having go through the normal NMU-procedure. This NMU is
> only used for security.debian.org though, and not uploaded to
> master until the maintainer has been contacted and the proper NMU
> procedure has been followed.
>
> Can everyone agree with that?
I see no reason why not.
Note that the previously proposed QA policy includes much wider range
of NMU power for the security fixes, and nobody has commented negatively
on it, so...
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