Bug#932417: nmu: ocamlnet_4.1.2-3
Hi,
On 22-07-2019 20:54, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 08:41:09PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
>> I'm relatively new on the team so give me some slack. There is a
>> permanent transition tracker for ocaml, so I *guess* this is handled
>> differently than via regular binNMU requests:
>> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/ocaml.html Is there anything
>> special here?
>
> nomeata has scripts to detect this kind of stuff, for ocaml here:
> https://people.debian.org/~nomeata/binNMUs-ocaml.txt
> Those files are written in a way you can just pipe them into `wb`.
I noticed that. But is the RT doing that? Or do ocaml people have access
to wb to do this themselves?
> Incidentally, IMHO ocaml and haskell have the same issue golang has
> regarding security and stuff, but the release team never really bothered
> with them much, I think you should definitely try to work out something
> to track decently all these statically linked languages.
It's mostly s/you/these statically linked language teams together with
the security team/ here. The release team doesn't have the spoons to
drive this. And I think the golang team will have to do some of that
work if they want the golang ecosystem to be in bullseye. If nothing
happens, golang is going to be removed from testing.
Paul
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