Re: Patched sendmail? testing?
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:11:02PM -0500, stan wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 07:30:05PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:04:48PM -0500, stan wrote:
> > > Not idael at all. As a matter of fact, it makes the whole concept of a
> > > testing release pretty useless.
> >
> > No it doesn't. It's designed to help developers get an idea of how close
> > we are to having something releasable, and to make the release process
> > itself easier. If some users find it useful, that's great - an added
> > bonus. But you should still take care when using it on machines
> > connected directly to the net (which, remember, is not anywhere close to
> > all Debian systems).
>
> Well, then shouldn't it allow "stable" to be released often enough that it
> acn be used in production> For instance how old are the prel modules, and
> devlopment environment in it? Ancinet by modern standards.
We're trying, damnit.
> > That's nice. When "resources" (i.e. developers) come along who have the
> > time and skill to start performing testing security updates, it'll be
> > done: this came up on -devel fairly recently, and all the technical
> > facilities to allow such updates to happen are there. Until then we can
> > but admit once again that it's not ideal and shrug.
>
> I'm curious as to why it can't be done in conhunction with the stable
> security fixes?
The fact that most of the developers working on stable security are
already working completely flat out, perhaps?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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