[Secure-testing-team] Why is "fixed in testing-security" slow to turn up in the tracker?

[Francesco Poli]

On Thu, 31 May 2007 23:38:18 +0200 Stefan Fritsch wrote:

> On Donnerstag, 31. Mai 2007, Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> > Why does this seem to be often updated in delay w.r.t. the other
> > data?
> 
> The data which vulnerability is fixed in which version is pushed to 
> the tracker (by the svn commit). However, the data which versions are 
> in which distributions gets only updated when the tracker downloads 
> the Packages files, which does not happen too often (once a day?).
> 
> Therefore, at the moment the tracker knows that the issues are fixed 
> in version 3.0.24-6+lenny3, but it doesn't know yet that this version 
> is in testing-security.

Ah, I see: so I expect to see those holes marked as "fixed in
testing-security" tomorrow...

Thank you very much for the explanation (and for enhancing the security
of the  Debian testing branch, of course!!!).
Bye. 

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