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Re: Debian/Testing and security updates



On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 07:07:17AM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote:
> Normally, packages go into testing after having been in sid for some
> time.
> 
> Is there an exception that allows security updates to be rushed
> through, or should these be manually gathered from sid?

Security updates are usually uploaded with a high urgency field in their
changelog, which reduces their waiting time for testing. However, if
they depend on packages not yet in testing then this won't help them.
There is a mechanism (testing-proposed-updates) for rushing security
updates through, but so far there's been a shortage of manpower to do
anything systematically useful with this.

So, if you're running testing, then yes, you need to track security
problems yourself and upgrade from unstable as necessary.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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