Re: Question re Debian versions
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 09:32:59AM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote:
> myh> On 2004-03-19, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> myh> Also, look at security updates. Updates are provided for
> myh> stable and unstable almost immediately. Then those using
> myh> testing distributions must wait the allotted amount of time
> myh> before receiving the unstable update in testing.
>
> How long of a wait?
>
> If I understand this correctly, users of 'testing' (currently 'sarge')
> can do *nothing* when new security problems arise? They must wait for
> the fix in 'unstable' to make it into testing.
>
> Sounds like 'testing' contains a "window" during which "bad people"
> could do "bad things" ...
Yup. Unfortunately, we can't do anything about this until a team turns
up to do security updates for testing, which is a hard and
time-consuming job.
http://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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