* Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030209 06:43]: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:28:13AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > Not that I am complaining because security updates are always good, but > > how exactly did perl 5.6.1-8.2 make it into testing sometime in the last > > couple of days? It didn't come from unstable, because unstable moved to > > perl 5.8.0 a while ago, and I didn't know that there /was/ any other way > > for updated software to make its way into testing. It appears to have > > originally been a stable security update from the end of November. For > > it to just now make it to testing implies that someone made a special > > effort to upload it, but noone cares about security updates for testing, > > right? This is just an abject curiosity question to see if anyone can > > explain the mystery...
Sorry, no help there.
> Are you *sure* it came from testing? 'apt-cache policy perl-base' will
> tell you. It is in security.d.o, and this has caused a bunch of
> problems for sarge users :/
Sure looks like it's in testing:
doozer:~% apt-cache policy perl-base
perl-base:
Installed: 5.8.0-15
Candidate: 5.8.0-15
Version Table:
*** 5.8.0-15 0
600 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
5.6.1-8.2 0
700 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
good times,
Vineet
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