Re: security in testing
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 01:30:38PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 03:04:10PM +0300, Kalle Kivimaa wrote:
> > Why not? Testing would be my personal choice for running a desktop (or
> > laptop) Linux, were I not otherwise involved with Debian development.
> > The only bad thing is the non-existent security (I could live with
> > occasional critical bug but the level of critical bugs in unstable is
> > too much to bear for most users). There are, however, some pre-plans
> > afoot regarding that (more or less running the same process as with
> > stable, of course with different people responsible).
>
> What kind of pre-planning is taking place? The idea of security
> updates for testing?
>
> Every time this appears to have been raised it's usually shot down
> very quickly; unless I've missed something.
I haven't seen it be shot down. I've seen people saying "the
infrastructure's there, it's just that nobody's actually doing the
updates", though.
However, I wasn't aware of any of the pre-plans Kalle refers to. I
didn't think anyone had actually picked up this ball yet.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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