On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 04:38, Michael Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Sergiusz Pawlowicz wrote: >> Asking about _what did i do_ also fits into point c). My question was >> about last three years of package maintainer, not my three days here. >> About bug #516394 - it cannot be patched, as nothing is broken. A >> package maintainer had enough time to convince the Security Team they >> are wrong. But it fits in the point e) - it requires strong effort, as >> the Security team seems to be immune to arguments, similar to the most >> of discussant in this thread. > > I wonder if your particular problems couldn't be solved simply via > apt-pinning? > http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html > > You seem to need to be able to pin xpdf from testing and djbdns from > unstable. Done.
In a home-brew system, it is absolutely a solution. But testing Debian in an extremely essential service, DNS, on your production servers, is in my opinion, not acceptable. cheers - Serge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPRDrAGjv-jJqKrA+QWACub2SY88LU5LCUx»[email protected]
