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Re: testing distribution security updates?



On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:23:52PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Chris Ruvolo wrote:
> > If a package is in the testing distribution and a security update is issued
> > that effects stable, testing and unstable, how long before the testing
> > package is updated?  Does it have to go through the full process of
> > maturation to make it to testing from unstable?
> Packages can be expidited into testing if the maintainer uploads them
> with a high urgency field set. I suppose that dependancies could still
> keep them out though.

They can be expedited even more by having an urgency of critical, but if
their dependencies are broken, or they're not recompiled on some architecture,
or they're buggy, they won't go in.

> > Would the updated packed be backported or otherwise
> > pushed into testing?  How soon?
> Good question. I suppose that if dependancies keep them out of testing,
> this could be a problem.

Getting packages compiled on all architectures is more likely to be the
problem: glibc has been held up because the arm autobuilder was running out
of space trying to compile it, eg.

Cheers,
aj

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