Re: Wheezy update of libtomcrypt?

[Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>]

Hi Jonas,

2016-09-07 0:52 GMT+02:00 Jonas Meurer <jonas@freesources.org>:
> Hi Bálint,
>
> Am 07.09.2016 um 00:21 schrieb Bálint Réczey:
>> 2016-09-04 17:51 GMT+02:00 Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>:
>>> Thanks for your work on LTS.
>>>
>>> Time does not permit me to do any of this work myself.
>>>
>>> Please go ahead and make any changes as you see fit, there’s no need for my
>>> review.
>>
>> Thank you for your quick answer.
>
> First, thanks for taking care of communication with the maintainer as
> part of your frontdesk duty.
>
>> I (on behalf of the LTS Team since I'm responsible for frontdesk now) take your
>> answer as covering all future security updates for releases in LTS period
>> thus we won't contact you for each CVE.
>
> Is there a place where we document the status quo of what maintainers do
> prefer regarding LTS updates of their packages? I'm not aware of such a
> document and I already wondered about it earlier.
>
> For now, I search the debian-lts list archives to find out about
> possible earlier statements by the maintainer(s).

I did the same, but being on frontdesk gives a fresh look at the problem. :-)

Cheers,
Balint