exim4 in stable-bpo ?

[Lutz Preßler]

Hallo Andreas,

danke für die Antwort.

On Do, 15 Mär 2018, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> On 2018-03-15 Lutz Preßler <Lutz.Pressler at sernet.de> wrote:
> > would it be possible to introduce exim4 packages into the stretch
> > backports repository (as seems to be the case for other packages)?
> > The 4.90.1-1 version in testing at the moment _appears_ to build on
> > stretch/amd64 without a problem and works for us.
> 
> Backporting should be possible without (or just tiny) adaptions.
Yes. As I said, building the testing source on stretch at the moment is
no problem at all.
> > We'd like to use at least 4.90.1 on stretch because of some major
> > problems with a cutthrough delivery setup in 4.89 (and in part earlier).
> > To have a version with security support by "Debian" would be nice,
> > of course. To be honest, I'm not sure if there is security support
> > for stable-bpo at all though.
> 
> security support in bpo needs to provided by the bpo-maintainer,
> debian-security does not cover it. For embargoed issues the
> security support will therefore be delayed by at least a day.
Thanks for this information. It's a bit suprising for me. Colleagues of
mine thought to have read an announcement some time ago stating otherwise.
But I don't have an URL right now.

> 
> Taking a look at the exim backport for oldstable[1] you will note that
> backporting of 4.89-2+deb9u2 and 4.89-2+deb9u3 was delayed much longer.
> The reason for that is a simple one, I forgot. :-(
Does this mean you don't want to add another release version?...

Thanks again,
  Lutz
> 
> cu Andreas
> 
> http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.89-2+deb9u3~bpo8+1_changelog

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