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Re: Security updates without DSA?



On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:56:46AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:

> Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > This is normal in general, as the stable distribution is updated from
> > time to time by point releases, which fix critical non-security bugs.
> > However, woody has not received such an update as yet.
> 
> I'd say critical non-security bug fixes should go to proposed-updates, but
> that's debatable.

There is no sense debating that, they _do_ go to proposed-updates, and then
they are periodically merged into point releases.

> Nevertheless, I'd expect a DSA for everything that ends
> up in
>
>   deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

This is not the case for uploads which were made to testing-security, since
they are now in stable-security as well as stable.

> [kdenetwork]
> I (as well as Peter Mathiasson in his) see 4:2.2.2-14 in my Packages file
> for woody.  security.d.o has 4:2.2.2-14.0woody1.  For the record, I
> apt-get update'd yesterday from ftp.jp.debian.org, a primary mirror.

You may be right about this one, I'm not sure what happened.

-- 
 - mdz



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