Re: security in testing

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 07:15:04PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > This is documented prominently on the website.  If people do not look
> > before they leap, there is little we can do.
> 
> Sure we can. We can consider the lack of security updates for testing to
> be a bug, and we can fix that bug.
>
> As it is now, testing appears to be a worse leap than unstable WRT
> security. That's not a good state of affairs IMHO.
> 
> So, how about a testing-updates?
> [...]

There is no shortage of opinions about what "we" should do, but there is
unlikely to be any action until an "I" arises who actually does the work.
This has been discussed over and over with the same result each time (i.e.,
no action).

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 - mdz