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On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:15:51 +0200 |
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Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 07/11/2017 04:13 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: |
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> > On 07/11/2017 03:47 PM, Michael Palimaka wrote: |
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> >> The main risk of breakage of a package moving from testing to |
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> >> stable is always at build time anyway. |
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> > citation needed |
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> Anecdotal evidence against, currently gnupg 2.1.21 scdaemon bug will |
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> happily sign a third party public keyblock's UID using signature |
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> subkey on smartcard, which results in useless signature that doesn't |
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> have any effect, but the application builds fine. |
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> This means gnupg 2.1.21 is not a candidate for stabilization, but it |
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> certainly builds fine. |
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This is a good opportunity to remind ourselves what stable means. Are |
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we referring exclusively to our packaging or are upstream issues taken |
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into account too? 30 days seems like a reasonable time for any upstream |
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issues to be reported. Unfortunately security issues mean that new |
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releases sometimes get stabilised immediately. Ideally these releases |
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would carry just the security fixes but that isn't always the case. |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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