Re: security updates introducing breakage

2011-01-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Stefan Fritsch writes (Re: security updates introducing breakage): On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Ian Jackson wrote: An alternative would be to look for bugs which are fixed in the previous version but found in the update, and ask submitters of regressions to mark the bug as fixed in the previous

Re: security updates introducing breakage

2011-01-20 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, January 20, 2011 03:18, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au wrote: What is policy when security updates for stable introduce new regressions in software that weren't there before? Can these get fixed in stable? If a stable

Re: security updates introducing breakage

2011-01-20 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Thu, January 20, 2011 03:18, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au wrote: What is policy when security updates for stable introduce new regressions in software that weren't there before? Can

Re: security updates introducing breakage

2011-01-20 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Ian Jackson wrote: Stefan Fritsch writes (Re: security updates introducing breakage): Ack. There is no automatic way the security team is notified of such bugs. Please CC us in such cases. Would it be worth defining a [user]tag of some kind that would allow this kind

Re: security updates introducing breakage

2011-01-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Stefan Fritsch writes (Re: security updates introducing breakage): Ack. There is no automatic way the security team is notified of such bugs. Please CC us in such cases. Would it be worth defining a [user]tag of some kind that would allow this kind of thing to be dealt automatically

security updates introducing breakage

2011-01-19 Thread Brian May
Hello, What is policy when security updates for stable introduce new regressions in software that weren't there before? Can these get fixed in stable? e.g. I have had somebody complain to me that this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=587702 which was introduced into stable

Re: security updates introducing breakage

2011-01-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au wrote: What is policy when security updates for stable introduce new regressions in software that weren't there before? Can these get fixed in stable? If a stable security update contained a regression, usually that is