[Logcheck-devel] logcheck releases

[Todd Troxell]

On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 07:48:22AM -0500, Eric Evans wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 04:32:46PM -0400, Todd Troxell muttered these words:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 08:00:28PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> > > we have a pile of fixes in our cvs thanks to jamie,
> > > tried also to keep up, but couldn't beat his rhythm ;)
> > 
> > I've just caught up with the current state of things, and I'm impressed with
> > the number of changelog entries! <:  I'll definitely get a release out soon.
> > 
> > > as all those rules still apply for sarge daemons,
> > > i would consider the following release ideas.
> > > 
> > > 1.2.40 bad bug fix 
> > > -> sarge-proposed-updates
> > > 
> > > 1.2.40 + 1.2.41 all the big bunch
> > > -> unstable
> > > -> volatile
> > 
> > I will have to think about this some more.  I think it's really mostly
> > rulefile changes.  The bad bug is a known issue.  We can't set the
> > permissions every install as it would break policy, so we are stuck with
> > different (but still accessable and working) permissions for some rulefiles
> > until logcheck user is made to be part of Debian base.
> > 
> > I am thinking unstable+volatile would be the best option.  I'll rethink it,
> > and possibly release late this weekend.  Any input in the meanwhile is
> > appreciated.
> 
> Sticking to the spirit of the volatile archive, I'd like to see us limit
> rule updates there to fixes required by the other packages in the archive, 
> (i.e. new spamassassin packages in volatile which change its log messages, 
> causing us to fix the pattern in a new upload to volatile).

I'm not sure about this.  New rules could be seen a new features, but then
again so could new virus definitions, which are definitely in the spirit of
volitile.

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[   Todd J. Troxell                                         ,''`.
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