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Re: Please remove non-lts architectures from wheezy-security



On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 19:42 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 18:51 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 
> > As I understand it, packages are never moved directly from oldstable-
> > security to archive.debian.org.  Normally they are copied to oldstable
> > in a final point release, and then moved to archive.debian.org.  In
> > this case, there was a point release on 2nd April and none at the
> > transition to LTS.
> > 
> > This is fine for the LTS architectures since wheezy-security still
> > exists on security.debian.org.  But it seems no-one thought through
> > how the other architectures' recent security uploads would get
> > archived.  And since all wheezy LTS uploads are also going into wheezy-
> > security, I think we're going to have the same issue at the end of LTS.
> > 
> > So I think there needs to be some kind of pseudo-point-release for
> > wheezy to straighten out the non-LTS architectures now, and another one
> > at the end of LTS..
> There'll be an actual point release for wheezy, as an EOL clean-up as
> usual.

Thanks.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

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