Re: testing security (was Re: testing and no release schedule

[Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>]

Hi, Nathanael Nerode wrote:

>  I always thought
> that "best practice" was for maintainers to make new uploads to unstable
> when there's a security update, which they do -- but *also* to make
> security uploads to testing-proposed-updates.  This doesn't seem to
> actually be done very often, unfortunately, even by otherwise very diligent
> maintainers.  :-P  I'm not sure why -- maybe testing-proposed-updates
> simply isn't well-known or well-understood?  Or maybe it isn't processed
> efficiently?

If there are no dependency issues, Priority: high (or even "emergency",
which doesn't seem to be that well-known either) works just as well.

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Matthias Urlichs