On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 02:49:28PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > You seem to fail to understand that people don't pull security updates > > from Joe-Random-NM-or-not's server. Of course, one can setup a > > repository with testing-security-updates. Whether it would (or should) > > actually be used is another matter. > > People pull all kinds of stuff from all kinds of people's servers. What > you fail to understand is that not being a DD doesn't mean you can't do > the work.
I wouldn't feel like setting up a repository for testing that only clueless people-who-put-every-apt-line-they-see-in-their-sources-list[0] would use. > > I'm all for starting, implementing and testing *new* projects outside of > > the current infrastructue before they get transferred to .debian.org. > > But the infrastructure and the procedures *are* there, we just need to > > do it. > > So do it. You don't need it to be part of the current infrastructure, > it doesn't save you much time, as I was trying to point out. 1. See above 2. I don't have the time 3. I'm not running testing oh, and: 4. I would have to get a s/390 > > Huh? How could a DD create a repository somebody else cannot? The only > > place that would be is people.debian.org/~<login>, right? That'll be > > quite a bad place for security updates because I think one still cannot > > pin different repositories at p.d.o to different priorities. Correct me > > if I'm wrong. > You're misunderstanding the comment. Were you made a DD the only work > you wouldn't have to do to create testing security updates would be to > create the repository. You'd have to do all the rest, which is where > the real effort is. > An empty repository is what you'd get if you were a DD. I must be totally missing something. Is one getting the s3kr1t "create-a-repository-key" when you are becoming a DD? Where would these repositories be located? Nobody told me so! Sorry that I'm not getting this. Michael -- [0] What's the official abbreviation/jargon term for those people?
