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Re: Question about contributing to debian financially.

From Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.project
Subject Re: Question about contributing to debian financially.
Date 2022-11-16 16:30 +0100
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 08:35:01AM -0500, Zeke Williams wrote:
>I have an additional question for if I were to hire someone personally
>to maintain certain debian packages. What happens with the security
>team if a package has no maintainer and a security vulnerability is
>found? Does the security team recompile the package with the patch
>even if there is no maintainer?

Yes.

> Is it more difficult to get involved with the security team or maintainers team?

If by "getting involved" you mean joining, as oppose to interacting
with, the security team is much more difficult than "maintainers team"
which I take to mean any package maintainer.

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Question about contributing to debian financially. Zeke Williams <lakeleaf8@gmail.com> - 2022-11-15 16:20 +0100
  Re: Question about contributing to debian financially. Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> - 2022-11-15 19:30 +0100
    Re: Question about contributing to debian financially. Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2022-11-16 00:50 +0100
      Re: Question about contributing to debian financially. Zeke Williams <lakeleaf8@gmail.com> - 2022-11-16 14:50 +0100
        Re: Question about contributing to debian financially. Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2022-11-16 16:30 +0100
        Re: Question about contributing to debian financially. Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2022-11-17 03:10 +0100

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