Re: security updates for testing distibution

[Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com>]

  On Apr 04 at 18:08, John Hasler spoke:

> Andrew writes:
> > Don't security updates also go to unstable?
> 
> No.  Security updates are almost always done by backporting the fix to the
> version of the package that is in stable.  The version in unstable is
> almost always a more recent one.  If it is vulnerable it will be fixed when
> the maintainer uploads a new version.

But what about the testing distribution? Does it also get `implicit'
security fixes by new versions?
Or is it safer to stick with stable?

-Hanspeter


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