Bug#1109993: bookworm-pu: package rsync/3.2.7-1+deb12u3
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On Mon, 2025-07-28 at 22:42 +0100, Samuel Henrique wrote:
> Control: tag -1 - moreinfo
>
> Hello Jonathan,
>
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 at 22:21, Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw@debian.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > This proposal does not fit the usual criteria for an update to the
> > stable
> > release. Why do the enhanced tests need adding *now* for
> > hypothetical
> > future security updates?
>
> I thought increasing test coverage was within the scope of stable-pu
> updates, is this not the case? I mean, this will make it easier to
> catch regressions in stable uploads.
In general, test coverage updates are a thing that we accept as part of
updates, but usually not as the sole reason for an update (similar to
e.g. documentation updates).
> I might have misunderstood the question, but we want to add these
> tests to bookworm in order to detect regressions in future updates to
> the rsync package in bookworm. We've had a bad regression pushed to
> bookworm in January this year as part of a CVE fix, that's the type
> of problem I'm trying to avoid from happening, does this answer it?
In this case I'm willing to go with it, to try and avoid such issues.
Please go ahead; sorry for the delay.
Regards,
Adam
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