On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 02:08:28AM +1200, Nick Phillips wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 01:27:12PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:03:32AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > > Figuring that a security upload would be preferable, I approached the > > > security team and offered to prepare an upload. I was effectively told > > > that this isn't done, and because it isn't done, most testing users don't > > > have security.d.o in their sources.list, so don't bother. > > > > This is an excellent point. > > Really? I think it's a pisspoor point.
That's probably because you completely missed it. > If people like Steve, who maintain important packages like Samba, bother > to create the necessary packages, then: > > a) It's a good start -- once people see these things starting to appear, > more maintainers will bother, and users will start to put the relevant > lines in their sources.list; > b) They damn well should be made available. I absolutely agree. What are you doing to make this happen? Sounds like we need volunteers to process testing-proposed-updates. > > Testing users do not have such an entry in sources.list, so any other > > repository would be on equal footing. However, so far no one has taken > > any action to coordinate this, nor has anyone prepared updates for > > testing that would occupy such a repository. > > If this other repository had access to autobuilding facilities, then yes, > it might be on an equal footing. testing-proposed-updates does. -- - mdz
