Hi Chris,

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 08:12:54PM +0000, Chris Knadle wrote:
> Salvatore Bonaccorso:
> > Hi Benedikt,
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 10:48:56AM +0200, Benedikt Tuchen wrote:
> > > Hello
> > > 
> > > Is this bug still observed?
> > > 
> > > We would be very happy to see this problem solved for Buster as
> > > well.
> > 
> > That would be great. For a security team perspective this is marked as
> > no-dsa, this means we think that it will not warrant a dedicated DSA,
> > but fixing the issue in buster would be possible via one of the
> > upcoming point releases.
> 
> I also want to fix this but got lost in the documentation when I was last
> doing the work. When I read the documentation in the Debian Developer's
> Reference about how to do an upload to Stable, it wasn't immediately clear
> to me which release to target and which upload queue to send the package to.
> 
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#upload-stable
> 
> So now re-reading it, it seems the upload should target "buster" and the
> upload I ship should likely be to the "proposed-updates-new" queue.
> Probably? Somehow I find the wording a little difficult to be certain in its
> parsing. If this is correct please let me know.

That is correct, and then one it hits there the NEW queue, a stable
release mnager will decide if the upload should be accepted into the
proposed-updates section. It should be accompanied with a respective
release.debian.org bugreport accordingly as mentioned in the above
rerference. Note there is as well this "improved" workflow:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/08/msg00000.html .

Regards,
Salvatore

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