Debian Bug report logs - #765452
debian-security-support: implement possibility to exclude specific binary packages from security support

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Package: debian-security-support; Maintainer for debian-security-support is Debian Security Team <[email protected]>; Source for debian-security-support is src:debian-security-support (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Raphaël Hertzog <[email protected]>

Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:57:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version debian-security-support/2014.09.11~deb6u1

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Report forwarded to [email protected], [email protected], Christoph Biedl <[email protected]>:
Bug#765452; Package debian-security-support. (Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:57:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Raphaël Hertzog <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to [email protected], Christoph Biedl <[email protected]>. (Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:57:08 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Raphaël Hertzog <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: debian-security-support: implement possibility to exclude specific binary packages from security support
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:53:11 +0200
Package: debian-security-support
Version: 2014.09.11~deb6u1
Severity: wishlist

As we recently discussed on debian-lts, it would be nice if you could add
the possibility to warn users that some specific binary packages have
no security support (i.e. a given subset of a source package is not
supported, but the other binary packages are supported).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers squeeze-lts
  APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-lts'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages debian-security-support depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.53
ii  gettext-base           0.19.2-3

debian-security-support recommends no packages.

debian-security-support suggests no packages.

-- debconf information excluded



Added indication that bug 765452 blocks 765454 Request was from Raphaël Hertzog <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Wed, 15 Oct 2014 09:03:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Added indication that bug 765452 blocks 773387 Request was from Samuel Bronson <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Sat, 18 Apr 2015 18:39:14 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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