Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 02:54:40PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On sam., 2012-05-12 at 23:45 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> > Being forced to upgrade to a new major version by a stable security support is
> > nothing we should force our users to. Debian stable is known for (usually)
> > painfree updates and bugfixes only, not for shipping completely new versions
> > with a forced migration.
>
> Yes, that's usually the case. But I think having (*few*) exceptions is
> actually helpful.
Additionally it's important to mention that we (security team)
raised our concerns a long time ago and we were voted down by
the technical committee to include Wordpress despite our concerns.
As such, anyone who wants to exclude Wordpress needs to re-raise
this with the TC (certainly not me, I no longer care).
Cheers,
Moritz
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