[Secure-testing-team] [Secure-testing-commits] r12161 - data/CVE

Giuseppe Iuculano giuseppe at iuculano.it
Fri Jun 19 20:13:32 UTC 2009


Michael S. Gilbert ha scritto:
> i don't see the need for this reversion.  if the tracker has these new
> versions, which have not yet entered the archive, then it does not mark
> the older version (that's still in the archive) as fixed or anything
> that would be confusing or incorrect. in fact, i think that it is more
> useful to track the fixed version whether or not it has entered the
> archive yet.
> 
> maybe i've missed something?  what is the philosophy behind this
> decision?

As Moritz pointed me out, adding entries for packages accepted in stable but not
yet entered in the archive makes more difficult to track issues which still need
to be addressed for a DSA.

Cheers,
Giuseppe.

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