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Re: binNMUs for dpkg-buildflags / -fstack-protector-strong



On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 12:53:54 +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 10:45:00AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 22:29:10 +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi release team,
> > > dpkg-buildflags was switched to the strong stack protector on
> > > the 10th of August. Many security-sensitive packages have already
> > > been uploaded to unstable since then and I'm tracking which are
> > > missing.
> > > 
> > > For the remaining ones I'd like to request binNMUs. Is that
> > > ok with and when's the best time? Probably not to early before
> > > the freeze since some maintainer uploads will follow anyway,
> > > but also not to close to the freeze. Maybe mid-October?
> > > 
> > I think if you have a list now, that would be fine.  We can always give
> > them low build priority to not monopolize the buildds.
> 
> Ok, will send the latest list in a few days. Is a list of source
> packages enough or do you need to current version in unstable as well?
> 
A version would allow us to not do unnecessary rebuilds if there's been
a new upload after you generated the list.  But if it's painful for you
to generate, it's not actually mandatory.

Cheers,
Julien

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