Re: Scoring up unstable security fixes in my /etc/apt/preferences:

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Subject: Re: Scoring up unstable security fixes in my /etc/apt/preferences:
From: Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 18:41:48 -0800
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On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:37:14PM +0100, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote:
> Is it possible to configure my /etc/apt/preferences in such a way that
> I automatically upgrade a package from testing to unstable whenever
> this can save me from a security problem?

apt pinning to testing should do the trick.  I don't recommend having
stable in your sources.list and move up any packages that are straggling.

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