Re: security in testing
On Thursday 15 May 2003 08:31 am, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > In that case, I invite any maintainer with a security fix for their
> > package in 'testing' to upload it to testing for
> > testing-proposed-updates. Problem solved. Are you the one who will be
> > responsible for reviewing the packages?
>
> testing, in the absence of a freeze, is a moving target and continuously
> updated from unstable, without any kind of review. I fail to see why a
> t-p-o => testing path, or even a separate-testing-updates solution as I've
> originally proposed, would need a review, but I'm willing to be
> enlightened.
To prevent the normal progression of packages into testing from unstable, and
thus the original point of testing, from being lost. If this path is used
for anything other than security updates, testing becomes completely
pointless, as I see it.
- Keegan
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