Re: New stable version after Sarge
* Joey Hess:
> I think we've taken this "security bugs arn't fixed in testing as well
> as in stable" thing as gospel a little too long without verifying it
> lately. I've been checking and if testing is lagging stable at all, it's
> doing so by a much smaller amount than we've traditionally thought.
I think that's because of the pending release, in particular frozen
base packages, and not representative for the whole release cycle.
If a switch to a new upstream version of libc runs into problems,
testing and unstable will diverge again, maybe for weeks or months.
testing-security intends to solve this, though.
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