Bug#1006127: wireless-regdb stable policy

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 02:49:32PM +0000, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> Package: wireless-regdb
> Version: 2021.08.28-1
> Severity: grave
> 
> Dear Maintainer
> 
> wireless-regdb stores regulation information for various regions. It's
> importatnt to keep
> it updated on every system to ensure legal compliance on user's system.
> 
> For example, China resctrcted transmission power for 5150 - 5350 MHz to 20
> dBm, while
> the version in stable is still using the old 23 dBm limitation. System
> running stable can
> be accused violation of laws.
> 
> Thus this package needs to be a part of security update to all stable
> release to prevent
> legal issues for users.

In avoidance of doubts, no this is not material to be shipped via a
security update, but it can in fact be updated in stable through the
stable point releases (and when needed updated earlier through the
updates suites).

Regards,
Salvatore