Re: Call for testing: upcoming wordpress security update

From	donoban <donoban@riseup.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.security
Subject	Re: Call for testing: upcoming wordpress security update
Date	2016-08-02 16:20 +0200
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On 08/01/2016 11:30 AM, donoban wrote:
> On 08/01/2016 10:28 AM, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
>> Hi
> 
>> We would like to expose the packages for the upcoming wordpress 
>> update a bit for additional testing. Please find them at
> 
>> https://people.debian.org/~carnil/tmp/wordpress
> 
>> and report any problem *introduced* by updating to these packages
>>  directly to team@security.debian.org and including Craig Small 
>> <csmall@debian.org> .
> 
>> Thanks in advance,
> 
>> Regards, Salvatore
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Pretty off-topic, time ago I read this on Debian wiki:
> 
> wiki.debian.org/WordPress#Upgrading_the_installed_WordPress_version
>
>  When I saw it I thought, "this breaks the Debian package upgrade 
> policy, but maybe this package is an exception".
> 
> Now your email confirms WordPress packages respect Debian policy
> and the Wiki is wrong.
> 
> Regards.
> 

You spend a lot of time and effort backporting bugfixes for old
versions of programs and then your Wiki says: "Ey dude, delete all
this stuff an download it from upstream".
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Thread

Call for testing: upcoming wordpress security update Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2016-08-01 10:30 +0200
  Re: Call for testing: upcoming wordpress security update donoban <donoban@riseup.net> - 2016-08-01 11:40 +0200
    Re: Call for testing: upcoming wordpress security update donoban <donoban@riseup.net> - 2016-08-02 16:20 +0200
      Re: Call for testing: upcoming wordpress security update Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> - 2016-08-02 16:40 +0200
        Re: Call for testing: upcoming wordpress security update donoban <donoban@riseup.net> - 2016-08-02 17:30 +0200
          Re: Call for testing: upcoming wordpress security update Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-08-02 18:00 +0200
        Re: Call for testing: upcoming wordpress security update Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2016-08-02 19:20 +0200
      Re: Call for testing: upcoming wordpress security update Craig Small <csmall@debian.org> - 2016-08-04 13:30 +0200

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