branch naming for stable security uploads
Niko Tyni
ntyni at debian.org
Sun Apr 15 20:34:35 BST 2018
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 01:54:53PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 11:10:33PM +0000, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > Changes:
> > perl (5.14.2-21+deb7u6) wheezy-security; urgency=medium
> > .
> > * [SECURITY] CVE-2018-6913: heap buffer overflow with large data blocks.
>
> FTR, I have imported this into our git repository, but not tagged it.
> The contents vary from the upload because of patch ordering changes
> made by git-dpm.
BTW I pushed the stable and oldstable updates to stretch and jessie
branch respectively, not stretch-security or jessie-security. Does that
matter? What's the use case for distinguishing between (for instance)
stretch vs. stretch-security ? Are there circumstances where they might
diverge?
--
Niko
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