On Sun, 2019-08-18 at 16:22 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Sun, 2019-08-18 at 16:56 +0200, Arnaud Rebillout wrote: > > * The bug you want to fix in stable must be fixed in unstable > > already (and not waiting in NEW or the delayed queue) > > > > My issue with this particular bug (#933002) is that for now, > > docker.io doesn't build in unstable. It will take a while before > > it > > builds again, as there was changes in the dependency tree. > > > > On the other hand, fixing this bug in stable is just a matter of > > importing the patch from upstream and rebuilding the package. > > > > So how am I supposed to handle that? Waiting for docker.io to be > > fixed and built again in unstable will delay the fix in stable for > > weeks, I don't think it's a good option. > > Nevertheless, that is the case I'm afraid. Updates to stable via > proposed-updates are not appropriate for urgent security updates - > that is what the security archive is for.
For the record, this fix became part of DSA 4521. > Looking at > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=docker.io > , there doesn't appear to be a bug filed for the build failure, so > there's no indication of what the issues are, nor what needs to be > done to fix them. and it looks like the build failures got fixed. Regards, Adam
