On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:19:08AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > There are already very clear statements about this. > > http://www.debian.org/releases/ > > testing > The ``testing'' distribution contains packages that haven't been > accepted into a ``stable'' release yet, but they are in the queue for that. > The main advantage of using this distribution is that it has more recent > versions of software, and the main disadvantage is that it's not completely > tested and <<<has no official support from Debian security team>>>. > > (emphasis added) > > http://www.debian.org/security/faq > > Q: How is security handled for testing and unstable? > > A: The short answer is: it's not. Testing and unstable are rapidly moving > targets and the security team does not have the resources needed to properly > support those. If you want to have a secure (and stable) server you are > strongly encouraged to stay with stable. However, the security secretaries > will try to fix problems in testing and unstable after they are fixed in the > stable release.
What is missing is a statement warning users that testing is less secure than unstable. Friendly, Sven Luther
