* Santiago Vila ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041113 15:25]: > On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > > On Tuesday 09 November 2004 23.44, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > > N+0 days > > > > Official security support for sarge begins > > > > > > Will the start of official security support for sarge be announced > > > widely, > > > to get as much testing as possible? (Like: general debian-announce, press > > > contacts, ...) > > > > No. Why should it? The new release of Debian will be widely announce. > > > > How do you want to test official security support? Suddenly discover > > loads of vulnerabilities? > The day it is officially known that security support exist for sarge, > lots of people will migrate their servers to sarge, even if it is not > released as stable yet, so yes, it would be interesting that it is > announced, widely or not, so that sarge (not the security support) > get as much testing as possible before the release. Be sure that we take care that as much testing as possible is done before the final release. But - as we don't know when what will happen, it is a bad idea to promise certain actions on certain days now. (Of course, we know that a lot of users will upgrade as soon as security support is in place - I'll do the same with my servers. :) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C
