On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 12:14:51PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Sam, 2003-09-06 at 05:02, Russell Shaw wrote: > > If you use a lighter wm such as icewm, then there's no problem at all > > with testing. I'd recommend that because there's less changing and less > > chance of system breaks as with unstable. You can install single packages > > from unstable easily too. > > No. Testing has _no_ security fixes. Stable has them, and in unstable > you mostly get a fix in very quickly. In testing, you may have to wait > for weeks until a crucial security fix trickles down from unstable, > there are _no_ emergency procedures.
The procedures are in place: there's testing-proposed-updates, which can be used to get critical security fixes autobuilt and into testing. The manpower to make use of this is what's lacking. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
