[Typo3-debian] typo3 in official debian tree?

[Edelhard Becker]

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:43:23PM +0200, Steffen Mueller wrote:
> Michael Stucki schrieb:
> > I am not very interested to do that. I remember some conversations
> > with Edelhard Becker (I know, I didn't reply to your latest mails
> > yet...). He is an official DD, maybe he wants to take care over
> > the packages one day.  Maybe someone else wants...(?)

well i'm still in the will-be-used-on-next-site-redesign stage of
using Typo3 (read: i haven't created even a single page yet .. :-/
I offered Michael to sponsor his packages (that is, loading them up to
Debian archive to get them into the official distribution). For
maintaining it i have too little experience with PHP and apache
(IMHO).

> but one problem could be:
> imagine severe bugs/security leaks being exploited in 3.5.0 and typo3 
> developers don't care, because 3.6.0 is not affected or problems are 
> only fixed in the 3.6.0 branch.

As i understood some previous discussions on this topic there are
several Typo3 ISPs using Debian as base distribution for their hosts.
Since a lot of pages depend on the Typo3 release they can't just
upgrade to a new major version. So there should be a large interest in
security fixes for older releases.

> in this case, the debian maintainer has to do this job. without a
> bugtracking system for typo3, this seems to be hard work.

Yes, he's responsible for "his" package...

Greetings,
Edelhard
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