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Re: Security team and NMUs



On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 02:47:05AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 
> As some people may have noted we're in the process of creating
> security.debian.org, which will be a location where security
> fixes are installed as fast as possible, without having to 
> wait for a daily dinstall and mirror run. To make this truely
> effective though the security team has to be able to make packages
> available as fast as possible.
> 
> Therefore I would like to give the security team authorization to
> make a NMU of a package if a security-problem has been discovered
> without having go through the normal NMU-procedure. This NMU is
> only used for security.debian.org though, and not uploaded to
> master until the maintainer has been contacted and the proper NMU
> procedure has been followed.
> 
> Can everyone agree with that?
> 

It sounds fine with me.  If this is (or neeeds to be) a -policy proposal,
consider it seconded.


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