Subject: Re: Pull-ups to the 2004Q1 branch (was: CVS commit: pkgsrc/multimedia)
To: Ingolf Steinbach <Ingolf.Steinbach@jena-optronik.de>
From: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/07/2004 16:55:05
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 04:41:54PM +0200, Ingolf Steinbach wrote:
> Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > Module Name: pkgsrc
> > Committed By: wiz
> > Date: Wed Mar 31 13:23:27 UTC 2004
> [...]
> > Fix remotely exploitable buffer overflow.
>
> What is the procedure to request pull-ups of changes like the
> above one to the 2004Q1 branch? I have seen several fixes
> of packages in the trunk after the end of the freeze, but nothing
> has been pulled-up yet.
>
> Should these requests be send-pr'ed? Who is responsible for
> sending the PR? IMO, that each time a fix is committed to the
> trunk, the same committer requests a pull-up (at least if it
> is really just a fix, not a version upgrade with new features).
You can look at http://releng.netbsd.org/ to see if the request is
already done. If not, IMHO, you should contact the developer who did
the original commit and ask him to issue a pullup request.
Cheers
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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
The NetBSD Project - http://www.NetBSD.org/