Re: will Release come back for testing/updates at security.debian.org?
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 11:54:01AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Lu, 08 iul 19, 03:10:53, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 03:22:40PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > > That will be actually a permanent change, see
> > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2019/06/msg00015.html . The
> > > intention was actually do to it already in earlier cycle, but was not
> > > possible (cf.
> > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2015/12/msg00015.html).
> >
> > What was the intended method for people upgrading from pre-buster
> > versions to find out about this change? Just wait for them to try to do
> > an update, get an error message, and hope that they ask on the mailing
> > list instead of just commenting out the security updates line?
>
> Testing users are supposed to be able to handle such breakage.
>
> When bullseye becomes stable this will most likely be documented in the
> Release Notes.
Ah, ok, thanks. I guess I wasn't following the thread properly and I
was thinking this change was happening in buster, not bullseye. My
mistake; sorry about that.
--
Dave Sherohman
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