Christian PERRIER wrote... debian/control: > Source: debian-security-support (...) > Description: Debian security support coverage checker > For some Debian packages, it is not feasible to maintain full security > support for all use cases through the full distribution release > cycle. > . > This package provides a program to identify installed packages for > which support has had to be limited or prematurely ended, and to > alert the administrator. This wording is somewhat hard to read but I'll leave that to the native English speakers. > New versions of this package with updated checklists are provided > via security updates. ... and that's not the full truth. Security updates will indeed provide new version for stable (not implemented yet but I expect this to happen soon) and oldstable (but not for squeeze since squeeze is almost EOL). For squeeze-lts, new versions will be provided by squeeze-lts, and while that one looks a lot like an extended oldstable-security, it isn't from a technical point of view. Finally, new versions for testing have little sense, for unstable none at all, debian-security-support exists there for technical reasons only and perhaps should be removed there once we've established the full distribution path. So, this package is rather unusual and I hope I'll finally find the time to propose a policy extension that will allow us to drop it in jessie+2. About the wording, it should be kept generic since the squeeze-lts name will vanish, and perhaps the entire LTS project (I hope not). So I'd just suggest something short like: > Updated checklists are provided via regular and/or security updates. or: > Updated checklists are provided by new package versions. [ intermission, there's more to come on other parts that need l10n ] Christoph
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