Re: security in testing
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 02:49:28PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Michael Banck (mbanck@debian.org) wrote:
> > You seem to fail to understand that people don't pull security updates
> > from Joe-Random-NM-or-not's server. Of course, one can setup a
> > repository with testing-security-updates. Whether it would (or should)
> > actually be used is another matter.
>
> People pull all kinds of stuff from all kinds of people's servers. What
> you fail to understand is that not being a DD doesn't mean you can't do
> the work.
I wouldn't feel like setting up a repository for testing that only
clueless people-who-put-every-apt-line-they-see-in-their-sources-list[0]
would use.
> > I'm all for starting, implementing and testing *new* projects outside of
> > the current infrastructue before they get transferred to .debian.org.
> > But the infrastructure and the procedures *are* there, we just need to
> > do it.
>
> So do it. You don't need it to be part of the current infrastructure,
> it doesn't save you much time, as I was trying to point out.
1. See above
2. I don't have the time
3. I'm not running testing
oh, and:
4. I would have to get a s/390
> > Huh? How could a DD create a repository somebody else cannot? The only
> > place that would be is people.debian.org/~<login>, right? That'll be
> > quite a bad place for security updates because I think one still cannot
> > pin different repositories at p.d.o to different priorities. Correct me
> > if I'm wrong.
> You're misunderstanding the comment. Were you made a DD the only work
> you wouldn't have to do to create testing security updates would be to
> create the repository. You'd have to do all the rest, which is where
> the real effort is.
> An empty repository is what you'd get if you were a DD.
I must be totally missing something. Is one getting the s3kr1t
"create-a-repository-key" when you are becoming a DD? Where would these
repositories be located? Nobody told me so!
Sorry that I'm not getting this.
Michael
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[0] What's the official abbreviation/jargon term for those people?
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