Dimitri uploaded a dep8 fix for dovecot in bug 1757265. I've always been reluctant to accept SRUs for things that are not user impacting.
For consistency, please could we decide a policy on this? To be clear, this isn't about SRU paperwork. Normally I'd happily accept a bundled dep8 fix in an SRU with no specific bug for the dep8 fix itself. I'm asking whether we should accept SRUs to fix this kind of thing even though there's no actual user impact, instead of asking for it to be bundled with the next SRU or security fix. Separately, we currently don't have a good place to keep such pending fixes. We should perhaps define one. Some IRC discussion: 15:04 <rbasak> xnox: why is it worth making all dovecot users download new binaries just to fix the dep8 test? 16:12 <xnox> rbasak, because it is a regression versus release pocket, that a security upload introduced; which trips up all other pending-srus which are reverse-deps of dovecot; there is no better way then SRUing this, to insure that next upload (security or updates) will fix this issue 16:12 <xnox> rbasak, it's not like there is a VCS for next-artful upload of dovecot, which ever that might be. 16:36 <rbasak> xnox: VCS for next-artful upload> as an aside, I think we should have that kind of thing 16:36 <rbasak> xnox: but I'm not happy impacting users for what is fundamentally a developer issue that doesn't impact users. 16:41 <xnox> rbasak, e.g. even if we commit this to "-proposed" next time there is a CVE -security will not take it, they take -updates only, no? 16:42 <xnox> rbasak, i think the right thing to do, is to upload this sru. 16:42 <xnox> on the grand scheme of things it is miniscual to the kernel every three weeks. 16:43 <xnox> rbasak, and it's been less than two weeks 16:43 <xnox> rbasak, and it does show security team did not run autopkgtest of dovecot itself, before uploading security upload.
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