Re: negative vote for maintainer Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 04:38, Michael Gilbert
<michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Sergiusz Pawlowicz wrote:
>> Asking about _what did i do_ also fits into point c). My question was
>> about last three years of package maintainer, not my three days here.
>> About bug #516394 - it cannot be patched, as nothing is broken. A
>> package maintainer had enough time to convince the Security Team they
>> are wrong. But it fits in the point e) - it requires strong effort, as
>> the Security team seems to be immune to arguments, similar to the most
>> of discussant in this thread.
>
> I wonder if your particular problems couldn't be solved simply via apt-pinning?
> http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html
>
> You seem to need to be able to pin xpdf from testing and djbdns from
> unstable. Done.
In a home-brew system, it is absolutely a solution. But testing Debian
in an extremely essential service, DNS, on your production servers, is
in my opinion, not acceptable.
cheers -
Serge
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