Re: [2001-11-29] Freeze Update
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Ian Eure wrote:
> On Thursday 29 November 2001 01:39 am, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:36:51AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > Out of interest: How is the following problem handled?
> > > At the time when the part of testing where package abc belongs to:
> > > unstable:
> > > Package: abc
> > > Version: 3
> > > testing:
> > > Package: abc
> > > Version: 1
> > > - Version 2 of abc fixed a RC bug.
> > > - Version 3 of the package didn't make it into testing because it has
> > > e.g. a dependency on a more recent version of a library that didn't
> > > make it into testing.
> > > - The maintainer of abc is perhaps busy/MIA/...
>...
> (f) it's handled like a security issue, and the fix from abc_2 is backported
> to abc_1, which gets nmu'd by e.g. qa or someone who wants the package to be
> released instead of removed.
That's a reasonable solution once these bugs are identified.
But you miss the main problem:
How do you know about the RC bug that was fixed in abc_2? The RC bug we
are talking about is perhaps closed since six months.
cu
Adrian
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