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

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>]

Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> 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.
Yeah; there often are dependency issues, of course.

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