[Secure-testing-team] Re: Bug#372721: http://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing wrong

Moritz Muehlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Fri Jun 16 08:52:16 UTC 2006


Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote:
>    A: Security updates will migrate into the testing
>    distribution via unstable.  They are usually uploaded with
>    their priority set to high, which will reduce the quarantine time
>    to two days.  After this period, the packages will migrate into
>    testing automatically, given that they are built for all
>    architectures and their dependencies are fulfilled in testing.
> 
>    The [1]testing security team also makes security fixes available in
>    their repository when the normal migration process is not fast enough.
> 
> 
> 	This topic also changes. As I understood it, we should replace
> with something like: "testing gets security updates in the same way that
> stable does", is that correct?

No. While the technical infrastructure may be in place, security support
for testing is not up to par with stable due to a lack of manpower. It's
still not recommendable to use it for a production system.

Cheers,
        Moritz



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