Re: security.debian.org in woody
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:36:39PM +0000, Robert Lazzurs wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Tal Danzig wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 02:32:50PM +0100, Niklas H?glund (ETX) wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > I'm running woody, should have
> > > "deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates ..."
> > > in my sources.list, as there is no
> > > "deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates ..."
> > > ?
> >
> > Security updates are available only for stable releases of Debian.
> > These updates generaly make their way into unstable around the same time
> > as the security update is released, and should then filter their way into
> > testing.
> >
> > - Tal
>
> Yea, but should this not be something that is put through straight away,
> should security update really have to wait with the rest of the packages?
I believe that these packages can be expidited by setting the priority of the
update to critical. I'm not 100% sure of the details. Still, AFIK, if
package conflicts are created or the package doesn't build on all released
arch's then it still won't make it into testing.
- Tal
>
> Take care - Rab
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