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Re: Fwd: [SECURITY] [DSA 2954-1] dovecot security update



Hi,

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 01:17:58AM +0200, Andreas Ziegler wrote:

> is someone planning to fix that issue in squeeze-backports?
> 
> although i read most of the mails on the debian-lts-related mailing
> lists and searched the wiki, i couldn't find information on how security
> issues with packages in squeeze-backports will be handled.
> 
> perhaps worth adding the answer to that there?
> https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/FAQ

Backports isn't LTS-land. The backporter is responsible in updating his 
backport if needed [1] (= security issues in squeeze-backports are 
handled the very same way they were handled when squeeze was stable and 
supported directly).

[1] http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/#index4h3

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