On Saturday 21 February 2004 01.14, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:14:43PM +0100, Gian Piero Carrubba wrote: > > Uploads that fix a security hole should have the priority set to high, > > and this should reduce the transition delay to less than a week [1], > > shouldn't it? > > It will reduce the best-case delay, but if the package is blocked from > entering testing by its dependency relationships, the urgency does not > change that. ... and sometimes people forget to leave urgency at 'high' until the fix is really in testing when they upload a new version. The only sensible way to handle this is the current way: stating 'testing has now security support'. urgency='high' or not. I run a stable/testing/unstable mix on my computers, and when a DSA is out I take a quick look and check which versions of the package I use. Downgrading a package from a testing version to a stable version is sometimes an option, for example. cheers -- vbi -- Entre hermanos, dos testigos y un notario.
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