Re: testing security updates
On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 08:35:32PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
> Debian web page about testing is saying that testing gets infrequent
> security updates
It's more accurate to say that testing does not get ANY security updates.
Not in any realistic sense. Packages migrate from unstable into testing,
and if one of those packages happens to fix a security bug, it's a happy
accident.
The only thing that even comes *close* to "security updates in testing"
is the fact that unstable packages that are marked as high priority have
a shorter delay before being automatically copied into testing.
Several years ago, there was an attempt to set up a "security for testing"
repository, but that died out and hasn't been used in years.
> and that you can get more frequent security updates from
> unstable.
Which means some people choose to run unstable rather than choosing
to run testing. It's their choice.
> Is that what people do ?
> have buster for main and bullseye for security updates in sources.list ?
YOU DO NOT MIX STABLE WITH TESTING.
YOU DO NOT MIX STABLE WITH UNSTABLE.
YOU DO NOT MIX TESTING WITH UNSTABLE.
If you use one of these, you use that one only. No mixing.
No Frankendebians.
https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian
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