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Re: Tracker vs. testing: not OK



On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:19:59 +0100 Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Francesco Poli:
> 
> > However, many other vulnerabilities are still considered as unfixed in
> > squeeze and fixed in lenny at the same time, with both branches having
> > the same exact package version.
> 
> Thanks for providing the list.

You're welcome!  :)

> 
> As announced, we do not provide full testing-security for a few weeks.

I am aware of that (even though I really hope that the meaning of "few"
is more close to 1 as possible!), but I think this is *not* a good
reason to show more vulnerabilities in testing than are actually
present!

> Most of the issues you listed should be fixed soon by regular testing
> migration.

Frankly speaking, I am not overly enthusiast of the meaning of that
"soon": for instance, wireshark will migrate to testing in 7 days,
assuming that its build process is successfully completed in the
meanwhile and the install issues caused by pcre3 get solved in time!
http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=wireshark

> In the moodle and mediawiki cases, I've added missing
> data, and for samizdat, I asked the maintainer if the upload to
> experimental was intended.

Thanks for fixing some of the reported inconsistencies.
However, I think the other missing data should be added too.

> 
> (The underlying tracker bug is difficult to fix in the current
> environment.  But it does not affected debsecan, I think.)

That's unfortunate.

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