Provisional MicroReleaseExceptions review

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Sat May 10 02:36:13 UTC 2014


On Friday, May 09, 2014 07:53:51 Brian Murray wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 08:40:42PM -0600, Adam Conrad wrote:
> > On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 04:49:12PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > I think we should revoke VLC's pMRE -- it has never been used.
> > 
> > This is, IMO, a bug in the script.  VLC's MRE has been exercised
> > repeatedly via security updates, a quick glance at the current
> > publishing state on LP attests to that.
> 
> I've modified the script now and rerun it for only vlc. Given that it
> had previously found SRUs for other packages is it necessary to rerun it
> for every package?

I would be interested to see how the packages that have non-provisional MREs 
look.

Scott K




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