Re: Which release
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 12:14:51PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Sam, 2003-09-06 at 05:02, Russell Shaw wrote:
> > If you use a lighter wm such as icewm, then there's no problem at all
> > with testing. I'd recommend that because there's less changing and less
> > chance of system breaks as with unstable. You can install single packages
> > from unstable easily too.
>
> No. Testing has _no_ security fixes. Stable has them, and in unstable
> you mostly get a fix in very quickly. In testing, you may have to wait
> for weeks until a crucial security fix trickles down from unstable,
> there are _no_ emergency procedures.
The procedures are in place: there's testing-proposed-updates, which can
be used to get critical security fixes autobuilt and into testing. The
manpower to make use of this is what's lacking.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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