Re: Non-security updates between stable releases?
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 04:23:56PM -0400, Tim Hull <thully@umich.edu> wrote:
> On 7/29/07, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > ciol <ciol13@gmail.com> writes:
> > > Russ Allbery wrote:
> >
> > >> Are you aware of backports.org?
> >
> > > But backports are recompiled packages from testing, and for instance
> > > testing is still with iceweasel 2.0.0.3. How is it possible to improve
> > > this?
>
>
> In the case of Iceweasel, stable already has 2.0.0.5, as this was a security
> update. There is supposed to be a testing security team, but evidently they
> haven't gotten around to the Iceweasel fix. Honestly, it is a bit weird -
> but a fact of the release system - that testing is actually *behind* stable
> in the particular case.
FWIW, it's not RC bugs that are keeping 2.0.0.5 away from testing, but
the fact it's not built on arm, mips and mipsel.
Mike
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