Hi Moritz, On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:14:49PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Hi, > now that more people are involved in creating security updates outside > the security team we should create a central place to gather useful > information. > > We can use this to collect information how to build tricky packages > (like the Linux kernel or OpenJDK) and especially to collect information > how to test a built package. I know that some packages have README > files explaining how to test them and some packages use autopkgtest in > jessie, but such files are not available in the old packages. If a > package is already well-documented in e.g. unstable, the entry for that > package would be as simple as see README.foo in recent Debian releases. > > I've just create a new directory packages/ in the SVN repository along > with an initial entry for openjdk, which describes how to build > security updates for it.
Thanks for preparing this, it is indeed a great idea. Regards, Salvatore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lts-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140717143955.GB20824@eldamar.local
