Hi,

Just a few additions below.

Adam D. Barratt <a...@adam-barratt.org.uk> (2017-07-04):
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> 
> On Wed, 2017-07-05 at 00:40 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > Steve found out that the OpenStack images do not include the security
> > update repositories by default in Stretch (though it's ok for Wheezy
> > and Jessie). This was fixed in version 1.20 of openstack-debian-images
> > which I uploaded to sid. It's this commit:
> > 
> > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/openstack/openstack-debian-images.git/commit/?id=2a78166a6c4ee5ee2b25dc5ed37323f761337bbd
> > 
> > It's not as bad as it sounds though, because as soon as you boot the
> > image, cloud-init manages the sources.list and add the security
> > repositories, then performs an update. Though I still believe this
> > deserves a fix ASAP anyway.

I'm a little surprised how something that “isn't as bad as it sounds”
needs to get a fix “ASAP” anyway.

> > Would it be ok to just get version 1.20 into the next point release?
> > Or should I prepare the exact same change in a 1.19+deb9u1 version
> > (which IMO would be missleading)?

What would be misleading exactly? An update in stable following the
versioning scheme that's been in place for several releases?

> We can't "just get" a package from unstable into a point release. It
> needs reuploading via proposed-updates, whether as 1.19+deb9u1 or
> 1.20~deb9u1. I fail to see why this package should be different from
> every other in that respect.

Ditto.

> As usual, please provide a debdiff of the proposed source package,
> built and tested on stable, so that it can be confirmed.

Yeah, following the usual procedure, that has existed for years, *will*
save everyone time. Please do that.


KiBi.

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