Re: security in testing

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 03:57:58PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:14:53AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> >I'm sorry, I am on a public terminal, and can't quite remember where I
> >read it - But testing should always be close to a releasable state.
> 
> That assumption is both false and absurd. Testing has exactly two
> advantages over unstable--1) all dependencies are satisfied and 2) known
> rc bugs don't propagate to testing. In all other respects unstable is
> better. (Security problems, rc bugs not noticed during the first two
> weeks, etc.)

But we don't advertize this, so it is natural that people make the
mistake and use testing instead of unstable.

Friendly,

Sven Luther