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Re: Security Policy



Furjo <furjo@quipo.it> writes:

> proved to be as fast as the "stable" update. But what about testing? I
> feel that the patched packets go through the normal (slow!) procedure
> of being included only after 10 days they are in unstable plus all
> other criteria, and that seems to delay urgent patches!

In practice security updates to stable goes through the standard
procedure. If package maintainers sets the urgency of a version to
high the 10 days it is held in unstable is shortened to 2 days but all
the other criterias still apply.

It is posible to upload to testing-proposed-updates but not mainy
developers do so.

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