[Re-adding some context for ftpmasters] On Thursday 01 September 2011 01:38:30 Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 07:30:24 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > After the ca-certficates update to stable was installed into the archive, > > it was found out that its version number 20090814+nmu3 had already been > > used in the first upload to unstable after the squeeze release. This is > > unfortunate, but because the update has already been installed into the > > security archive the damage has been done and we cannot reupload with a > > 'better' version. > > > > It doesn't impact the usefulness of the security update as stable users > > will never have seen this unstable version. Because unstable has seen > > more updates since, it will not impact future upgrades from squeeze to > > wheezy. > > > > Is there somewhere a problem coming from this that we need to resolve, > > and if so, how to best resolve it? > > It'll never get accepted into the main ftp.d.o archive for inclusion in > point releases for new CDs etc. One way to resolve this is to upload a > 20090814+nmu3squeeze1 version to stable including the changes from the > DSA, I think?
ftpmasters: we would also need you to remove +nmu3 from the security archive, wouldn't we? *Sigh* this is yet another bit of the DSA release process that needs to be automated. Do we have a place where we can easily check if a given version of a given package has ever been uploaded to anywhere in ftpmaster? does dak keep all that info in its database? Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
