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Re: Thunderbird in Debian testing

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Thunderbird 1:78.3.1-2 accepted in unstable at 30/09/2020, 21 days passed
since then, so i think it would be enough time to consider it ready for
testing.
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1179834/accepted-thunderbird-17831-2-source-into-unstable/

Anyway, thanks for your time.

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On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 7:58 PM Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 07:03:35PM +0300, Pavlos Ponos wrote:
> >    Apologies if this should be directed to another list, but I've already
> >    tried in 'debian-testing' with no luck, see [1]here.
> >    In Debian's package tracker I see that Thunderbird in stable through
> the
> >    security updates is in  1:78.3.1-2~deb10u2 while in testing is in
> >    1:68.12.0-1. How is it possible for the old-stable to have the same
> >    version with stable, but not testing?
>
> Stable updates are handled by the security team and are made as
> necessary.  Testing doesn't work that way.  Changes to testing arrive
> only after spending some time in unstable.  See
>
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/choosing.en.html#s3.1.7
> and https://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing
>
> >    [2]https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/thunderbird
>
> Tracker indicates that thuderbird will propagate to testing in the next
> couple of days based on a manual hint by the release team:
>
>     Migration status for thunderbird (1:68.12.0-1 to 1:78.3.3-1): Will
>     attempt migration due to a hint (Any information below is purely
>     informational)
>
> >    Security repository is enabled in my /etc/apt/sources.list file
> >    deb [3]http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing-security
> main
>
> That repository is empty and is typically not used at all except
> during a freeze when automatic propagation from unstable is disabled.
>
> noah
>
>

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Thunderbird in Debian testing Pavlos Ponos <pavlos.ponos@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 18:10 +0200
  Re: Thunderbird in Debian testing Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2020-10-21 19:00 +0200
    Re: Thunderbird in Debian testing Pavlos Ponos <pavlos.ponos@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 20:30 +0200
      Re: Thunderbird in Debian testing Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2020-10-21 20:30 +0200

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