squeeze webkit security update

[Michael Gilbert]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:56:01 +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 01:44:14PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:36:48 +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 01:20:40PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:42:31 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > > > > Hi Mike,
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Monday 21 February 2011 18:23:52 Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > > > > > I've prepared a package for the new stable upstream webkit 1.2 branch
> > > > > >  [0]. That branch now only contains security fixes.  Would it be OK to
> > > > > > push this new upstream version as a DSA for squeeze?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks. I think conceptually this is a good idea, I do have some practical 
> > > > > issues with the current package:
> > > > > 
> > > > > - The version number 1.2.7-1 won't work for stable since this is higher than 
> > > > > testing/unstable. In the past this would be propagated automatically to the 
> > > > > latter ones but I think that hasn't worked for many years now. 
> > > > 
> > > > Is there any way to restore this functionality?  This would be the
> > > > ideal solution.
> > > 
> > > Realistically, no.
> > 
> > What are the problems?  Are there some past threads that I could review
> > to better understand the issues at hand, and possibly postulate some
> > potential solutions?
> 
> The dak installation on security-master is different from ftp-master.
> It's planned to be merged in the mid term, but until then no non-necessary
> changes will be made.

Would it be possible to ask the ftp-masters to manually copy
squeeze-security uploads to the other releases on a case-by-case basis
in the meantime?

Best wishes,
Mike