[Secure-testing-team] Bug#694593: qa.debian.org: "news" part doesnt list stable-security uploads when package has been removed from unstable

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Wed Nov 28 17:09:55 UTC 2012


On mer., 2012-11-28 at 18:04 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> On 11/28/2012 05:31 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> >> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> >>> looking at http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mysql-5.1.html we can see
> >>> that the source package has been removed from unstable and testing, but
> >>> is still present in stable and stable-security.
> >>>
> >>> However, uploads are not listed in the "news" part. It'd be nice to
> >>> continue providing new information until the package is completely
> >>> removed from Debian.
> >>
> >> IIRC it does but the upload information in the news section comes
> >> for debian{,-devel}-changes at lists.debian.org and the mails are sent
> >> to debian-changes only when a stable point release happens IIRC.
> >>
> >> Is there any other list that gets upload information in real time?
> > 
> > Hmh, I'm not sure dak sends mail to a public list for that. FTPmasters,
> > any idea?
> 
> dak sends mail to the PTS when packages are accepted into
> proposed-updates.  However this has not happened for mysql-5.1 which is
> still waiting in p-u-NEW[1] (missing the ia64 build).
> 
> Those are also displayed as expected, see for example [2] or [3].
> 
> Ansgar
> 
> [1] <http://release.debian.org/proposed-updates/stable.html>
> [2] <http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/radsecproxy.html>
> [3] <http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clive.html>
> 
I understand. It's a bit weird that it then gives a view a bit
inconsistent, since in MySQL case it knows the version in stable-sec
(not sure how).

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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