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Debian adds security support for testingDebian adds security support for testingPosted Sep 10, 2005 6:20 UTC (Sat) by lacostej (subscriber, #2760)Parent article: Debian adds security support for testing
One of LWN latest article revealed that Debian has been quite slow lately at releasing security updates. Was that a part of the reason? Will that impact even more the timely release of future updates?
I don't know what to think...
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Debian adds security support for testing Posted Sep 10, 2005 8:51 UTC (Sat) by mbanck (subscriber, #9035) [Link] No, stable security and testing security are provided by two different teams.
Michael
Debian adds security support for testing Posted Sep 10, 2005 22:00 UTC (Sat) by dilinger (subscriber, #2867) [Link] And in some cases, testing security updates are being released before stable security updates; for example, the pcre3 update for testing was released on Aug 29 [1], while the stable release came out Sept 2 [2].
The debian stable "team" is exactly one person right now, while the testing team is comprised of a number of people.
[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/secure-testing-a...
Debian adds security support for testing Posted Sep 12, 2005 8:10 UTC (Mon) by lacostej (subscriber, #2760) [Link] As a user of the stable series on several servers, I'd rather that to be the other way around...
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