On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:01, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 5. Februar 2003 09:04 schrieb Chris Cheney: > > Sarge/Testing doesn't get security fixes is the primary reason not to > > run it imho. Also it is horribly out of date due to the fact that libc6 > > 2.3 still isn't in it. > > So you think, tracking security.debian.org and recompiling some packages > (apt-get -t unstable -b source) is not sufficient? > You must be kidding to give the explicit advice to track unstable. > > And Woody does not even have current X without external packages which are > not served with security fixes, too. Well, it does not have current libc6, > either. So what? > > Anyway, is there _any_ sane reason that testing has not security apt > source?
Yes, lack of manpower. The security team does an enormous amount of work already and unless someone steps up security updates for testing very much probably just won't happen. I guess someone doing the "apt-get -t unstable -b source" thing regularly enough and putting his packages into an apt-gettable repository would be a good start... Cheers, Yven -- Yven Johannes Leist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.leist.beldesign.de
