Topics: 1/ How to keep using security.debian.org for Wheezy's LTS support period? 2/ What do we support for Wheezy LTS? 3/ How to handle embargoed issues? 4/ Misc questions - What to do when issue is not fixed in unstable? - What to do when issue is not fixed in stable? Notes: Topic 1 - Usage of security.debian.org for wheezy's lts period -------------------------------------------------------------- Risk of seeing embargoed issues by LTS team members. -> not an issue if we don't have a queue with packages to accept Risk of unsupported architectures being not in sync. -> drop the architectures from the suite at that time Easy to drop the "queue" in front of the security suite. -> let's do it and reconsider if it turns out to be a problem Problem: ACCEPTED mails redirected to team@security and not to the uploader/maintainer -> ftpmaster already plans to send mails to the person who signed the upload Benefits: - no delay for mirroring - no change to sources.list We assume that we would not use EMBARGOED queues and just upload at the right time. Downside: some builds will come a bit later. Topic 2 - Packages / architectures supported for wheezy LTS ----------------------------------------------------------- Review the list of unsupported packages: Addition of armhf? -> not for wheezy, might make sense for jessie Support all architectures which (still) have buildds? -> difficult to ensure buildability everywhere, time better spent elsewhere Start again from the current wheezy support list and work it out from there on a case by case basis. We should aim to not exclude virtualization related packages from support, even if at the cost of upgrading to a newer upstream version. pmhahn: be careful when upgradeing qemu/ipxe/seabios/toolchain: This might change the RAM-layout (PCI-BARs) and breaks restoring previous snapshots and prevent live migration pmhahn: for Xen there is the is also a pre-disclosure-liste, where sometimes backports of fixes are posted (according to ijc) agx: libvirt might require updates when qemu is updated asterisk axis2c bugzilla chromium-browser -> need newer g++, already unsupported couchdb drupal6 ffmpeg -> not in wheezy, but libav may have same problems flashplugin-nonfree fusionforge gksu-polkit gridengine horde3 iceape icedove iceweasel kolab-cyrus-imapd libplrpc-perl libv8 libvirt mahara mantis mediawiki moodle movabletype-opensource openswan piwigo qemu qemu-kvm rails serendipity smarty smarty3 spip textpattern turba2 typo3-src vlc wireshark xen xen-qemu-dm-4.0 zabbix => filter that list for packages available in wheezy and review packages one by one based on sponsors data and analysis of the level of support we have in Debian (active maintainer?) Topic 3 - How to handle embargoed issues? ----------------------------------------- Suggestion made on the mailing list a few months ago: create lts-team@security.debian.org an alias to volunteers willing to handle such updates. => it's doable => aliases can't be subscribed to closed linux-distros list but security team could forward relevant mail (if allowed); OR => have one person from LTS subscribed to linux-vendors to represent the interest of the project (and forward data at his discretion to the above alias) Topic 4 - Misc questions ------------------------ What are we supposed to do when the bug is not fixed in unstable?