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Re: Security and Testing



Graham Smith wrote:
Hi,

I am sure this question has probably been done to death but I have googled a can't seem to find any up-to-date information.

I am tracking testing and I am wondering how good the security is. As I understand it, security in testing is reliant on contributor security patches filtering down from unstable with the security team providing no input. To speed things up though I believe patches are generally only quarantined for a short period (a couple of days).

Is this correct? If so realistically how bad is the security impact on testing? Is it bad enough that you would have to have a screw loose to run a testing server? The problem I have is that a stable server is horribly out of date and an unstable server seems like a risk (extra maintenance time fixing busted apt-gets for possibly minimal extra security).

Your views would be most appreciated

TIA

Graham




Come on, someone must have an opinion on this! I won't hold you to what you say :-) I'm just interested to know before I go and make a serious security blunder.



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