On Tuesday, October 27, Lukas Eppler wrote > > I have [dists/hamm/main dists/hamm/contrib dists/hamm/non-free] in my > selection in dselect. is there a directory to mention to have the security > updates quicker than a week, without going slink/unstable? The best thing to do is to subscribe to debian-security-announce and follow the instructions contained in the alerts that we send to this list. The directory where packages meant for stable are stored is dists/proposed-updates, but it's not a good idea to install on your machine every package that lands there, at least not for a production machine. Basically, packages tagged for 'stable' are moved automatically from Incoming to proposed-updates, without any testing. Then, if the package fixes a security hole, some basic testing is done, the advisory is written up and posted to debian-security-announce. More in-depth testing is then done on all packages in proposed-updates, and every couple of weeks the packages in that directory are either moved to stable or rejected, depending on the results of the tests. Hopefully that helped clarify our update process for stable. If anything still isn't clear, don't hesitate to ask. Thanks, Christian Debian Security
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