Re: Security team and NMUs
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>>>>> On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 02:47:05 +0200, Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl> said:
Wichert> As some people may have noted we're in the process of
Wichert> creating security.debian.org, which will be a location where
Wichert> security fixes are installed as fast as possible, without
Wichert> having to wait for a daily dinstall and mirror run. To make
Wichert> this truely effective though the security team has to be
Wichert> able to make packages available as fast as possible.
Wichert> Therefore I would like to give the security team
Wichert> authorization to make a NMU of a package if a
Wichert> security-problem has been discovered without having go
Wichert> through the normal NMU-procedure. This NMU is only used for
Wichert> security.debian.org though, and not uploaded to master until
Wichert> the maintainer has been contacted and the proper NMU
Wichert> procedure has been followed.
Wichert> Can everyone agree with that?
Second from me. One nice thing is to be able to say that we respond
to security problems quickly. This would make it that much easier to
respond.
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