Re: Upcoming stable point release (12.5)
Hi,
Thomas Lange <lange@cs.uni-koeln.de> wrote (Thu, 8 Feb 2024 12:10:33 +0100):
> >>>>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 11:25:22 +0100, Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> said:
>
> > Now leaving out the year from above link like
> > https://www.debian.org/security/dsa-5612
> > also redirects to the same announcement.
>
> > @Thomas: is this the intended behaviour (both variants are supported
> > and it stays this way) ?
> > In that case nothing needs to be done in the point release announcements...
>
> Yes, it's intended to work with and without the year. The security
> team knows about this and will change to links without the year in the future.
>
> I prefer without the year, because people do not care about the year
> when looking for a DSA/DLA, and it's hard to guess the year if you
> don't know it but only the number.
Sounds fair.
So the proper long-term solution would be to apply changings like in the
patch I proposed anyway...
Holger
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