Re: Upcoming stable point release (12.5)

Hi,

Thomas Lange <[email protected]> wrote (Thu, 8 Feb 2024 12:10:33 +0100):
> >>>>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 11:25:22 +0100, Holger Wansing <[email protected]> said:
> 
>     > Now leaving out the year from above link like
>     > https://www.debian.org/security/dsa-5612
>     > also redirects to the same announcement.
> 
>     > @Thomas: is this the intended behaviour (both variants are supported
>     > and it stays this way) ?
>     > In that case nothing needs to be done in the point release announcements...
> 
> Yes, it's intended to work with and without the year. The security
> team knows about this and will change to links without the year in the future.
> 
> I prefer without the year, because people do not care about the year
> when looking for a DSA/DLA, and it's hard to guess the year if you
> don't know it but only the number.

Sounds fair.
So the proper long-term solution would be to apply changings like in the
patch I proposed anyway...


Holger