Re: how to deal with widely used packages unsuitable for stable (was Re: [Git][security-tracker-team/security-tracker][master] Add radare2 to dla-needed.txt with comments.)

2019-08-30 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Fri, 30 Aug 2019, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 30 Aug 2019, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > We're not speaking of crap software, we're just speaking of software that > > > can't be maintained multiple years by backports of security patches, where >

Re: how to deal with widely used packages unsuitable for stable (was Re: [Git][security-tracker-team/security-tracker][master] Add radare2 to dla-needed.txt with comments.)

2019-08-30 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Fri, 30 Aug 2019, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 30 Aug 2019, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > There were several discussions over the last years. And yes, our vision of > > backports does not match the vision of those fastpace/not ready for > > stable/whatever you call them

Re: how to deal with widely used packages unsuitable for stable (was Re: [Git][security-tracker-team/security-tracker][master] Add radare2 to dla-needed.txt with comments.)

2019-08-30 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Fri, 30 Aug 2019, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 30 Aug 2019, Pirate Praveen wrote: > > Fast Track repo works exactly like current backports except the packages > > are added from unstable (or experimental during transitions and freeze) > > as they cannot go to testing and hence to

Re: Changing the "Reply-To:" for debian-security-announce (Was: "[SECURITY] [DSA 3501-1] perl security update")

2016-03-02 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Wed, 02 Mar 2016, Grond wrote: > I'll second this motion. > > A good proportion of the traffic I get from debian-security > is simply silly people trying to unsubscribe themselves from > debian-security-announce by replying to DSAs. > > And while most of them do not respond with empty

Re: new updates, no recent DSAs.... Hmmmm

2007-12-27 Thread Alexander Wirt
Jim Popovitch schrieb am Thursday, den 27. December 2007: *snip* Did I miss something? Why now, why no DSAs? (apt-get update/upgrade didn't indicate any packages last weekend, and sources.list hasn't changed). The notification of new packages was triggered 23:15 EST. Yes

Re: Bug#315399: Sarge's FireHOL fails to start if previously stopped

2005-10-25 Thread Alexander Wirt
Tilman Koschnick schrieb am Dienstag, den 25. Oktober 2005: Hi, FireHOL, an iptables configuration package, fails to start again if it was previously stopped (#315399, #309651): | # /etc/init.d/firehol stop ; /etc/init.d/firehol start | Stopping iptables firewall: FireHOL ...FireHOL: