On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 11:58:34AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> There has been a suggestion recently that all fixes should go through
> unstable first. The claimed benefit is that this reduces the chance of
> a regression.
which I think is pretty important for security updates in general and
the more important the older the supported suite is. in oldoldoldstable
I really dont want to see experiments.
also, given there are more fixup-DLAs than fixup-DSAs I think it's prudent
to reduce the risk for regressions for DLAs.
> In the discussion, it became clear that there is a
> significant cost to this approach: substantial delays to LTS/ELTS
> updates.
quality work costs time.
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Holger
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