On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:43:33AM -0200, Carlos Carvalho wrote: > Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 12 February 2001 11:32: > >IMHO people of security team shouldn't spend their time to serve > >security fixes for testing. People who want to use testing on > >security relevant machines should know what they do and should be > >able to handle those issues themselves. Those hazardeurs could try > >to fix important bugs of the package which is stick to unstable for > >whatever reason which would help the whole distribution or backport > >the stuff themself. > > What's the purpose of testing exactly? If it's a preparation for > becoming stable it should obviously include the security fixes, > otherwise when the transition testing -> stable happens you're... If > it's not a preparation for stable it has no purpose.
It is preparation for becoming stable, but not "on half a moment's notice". Security fixes go into unstable and trickle into testing. The principal, I think, is that we can throttle the packages being allowed into testing for an easier release cycle. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
