Re: Analysis of failing Nagios ping check in Wheezy
On 21/05/13 19:54, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> [Petter Reinholdtsen]
>> When a fixed package is provided in unstable, I believe we should
>> backport it to make sure roaming workstations no longer have the
>> problem at hand. And for Jessie, I believe we should move the package
>> back to the common task, assuming the bug is fixed by then.
>
> Now a fixed package is in unstable in libnss-myhostname version 0.3-5,
> closing #705900. He hope to provide a fix in Wheezy too. Next step for
> us is then propably to backport the sid version to our wheezy repo while
> we wait for the official fix. Which version number should we use? Or
> should we just wait for the wheezy point release, and see if the fix
> make it there?
>
What about using a suffix similar to the ~deb70u1 scheme of
proposed-updates; for example ~edu70u1 (Debian Edu, v7.0, update 1).
Due to the special handling of the ~ tilde character in version numbers,
the 'real' 0.3-5 package would supersede it if/when accepted into Wheezy.
Regards,
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Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org
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