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Re: "testing" improvements



On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:03:49PM +0100, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> En r?ponse ? Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>:
> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 04:48:28PM +0100, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> > > I said let packages into testing for architectures where nothing
> > > prevent them to. Why would mipsel failures block x86 packages,
> > > for instance?
> > Because we only have one source per suite. Consider, eg, what happens
> > if
> > you have a security problem in a package, and the current source
> > doesn't
> > build on some architectures.
> AFAIK, we only fix security problems for stable (and unstable obviously).

The same problem occurs in unstable; you'll frequently find security
problems unfixed on some architectures because of unrelated build failures.

In any event, not fixing security problems for testing is a bug, not a
feature, and not one that we want to further entrench.

Cheers,
aj

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