On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 21:12 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 08:51:50PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote: > >I noticed that some (security) updates for Debian lenny are available > >from debian/security for a while, but never made it on an point > >release DVD image. Examples? > > > >hi...@drachi:~$ apt-cache policy openjdk-6-jre [...] > >More examples are: squid, vlc, openldap... Most updates however are > >on this discs like linux-image-2.6-686. [...] > It's worth asking > the stable release manager(s) or the security team why these updates > have not made it into the lenny point releases. I'm interested > myself...
Packages from stable-security only get accepted in to proposed-updates (and therefore into stable) once the packages are available for all architectures; otherwise, once the package is in proposed-updates, the standard autobuilders will try building it for the missing architectures which will cause problems if the package is later provided via the security archive, as the packages will most likely not be identical but will have the same version number. For the specific cases mentioned, openjdk-6 is missing an s390 build, squid the armel build and vlc the mips build; openldap has two issues - 2.4.11-1+lenny1 was missing armel and s390 builds and +lenny3 was automatically rejected when it was pushed from the security archive to ftp-master, as the initial upload was source-only. This information can also be seen in the "resolution pending" section of http://release.debian.org/proposed-updates/stable.html ; hopefully the above is sufficiently detailed, but please let us know if there are any further queries. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
