Hi Adam, On Mittwoch, 8. Oktober 2014, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > The real question is "if there are different packages in squeeze and > squeeze-proposed-updates, to which one are security patches applied" and > the obvious answer is squeeze-proposed-updates, as that's what will > become squeeze at the next point release. (If the package in -updates is > newer than squeeze, then it is either the same as or older than the > package in proposed-updates; if the package in -updates is the same or > older than squeeze then it's irrelevant). do you think there will be another squeeze point release? I thought it was final, but you might know better ;) > Updating openjdk-6 in LTS to a version > 6b27-1.12.5-1 will still cause > the same problem, yes. I haven't checked the archive constraints for > -lts, but certainly having it contain more recent packages than wheezy > would at the very least break the principle of least surprise. be surprised: $ ssh coccia.debian.org dak ls debian-security-support debian-security-support | 2014.09.07~bpo70+1 | wheezy-backports | source, all debian-security-support | 2014.09.07 | testing | source, all debian-security-support | 2014.09.07 | unstable | source, all debian-security-support | 2014.09.11~deb6u1 | squeeze-lts | source, all $ dpkg --compare-versions 2014.09.11~deb6u1 gt 2014.09.07 ; echo $? 0 cheers, Holger
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