Re: security updates introducing breakage

2011-01-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Stefan Fritsch writes ("Re: security updates introducing breakage"): > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Ian Jackson wrote: > > An alternative would be to look for bugs which are "fixed" in the > > previous version but "found" in the update, and ask submitters of

Re: security updates introducing breakage

2011-01-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Stefan Fritsch writes ("Re: security updates introducing breakage"): > Ack. There is no automatic way the security team is notified of such bugs. > Please CC us in such cases. Would it be worth defining a [user]tag of some kind that would allow this kind of thing to be dealt aut

Re: security updates introducing breakage

2011-01-20 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Ian Jackson wrote: Stefan Fritsch writes ("Re: security updates introducing breakage"): Ack. There is no automatic way the security team is notified of such bugs. Please CC us in such cases. Would it be worth defining a [user]tag of some kind that would allow th

Re: security updates introducing breakage

2011-01-20 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Thu, January 20, 2011 03:18, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Brian May wrote: What is policy when security updates for stable introduce new regressions in software that weren't there before? Can these get fixed in stable? If

Re: security updates introducing breakage

2011-01-20 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, January 20, 2011 03:18, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Brian May > wrote: > >> What is policy when security updates for stable introduce new >> regressions in software that weren't there before? Can these get fixed >> in stable? > > If a stable security update contain

Re: security updates introducing breakage

2011-01-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Brian May wrote: > What is policy when security updates for stable introduce new > regressions in software that weren't there before? Can these get fixed > in stable? If a stable security update contained a regression, usually that is fixed with an update in the

security updates introducing breakage

2011-01-19 Thread Brian May
Hello, What is policy when security updates for stable introduce new regressions in software that weren't there before? Can these get fixed in stable? e.g. I have had somebody complain to me that this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=587702 which was introduced into stable