On 2013-04-03 20:14:32 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 02:12:22PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > In general, bug-fix releases (which are also blocked by the freeze) > > don't introduce new bugs. > > Case in point: > http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Security-updates-break-ownCloud-installations-1834507.html
Of course, there are exceptions. But you can see that the problem has been fixed very quickly (in less than 24 hours). If such a thing happens in Debian, the intermediate broken versions wouldn't even have the time to reach testing. One may also wonder whether the broken versions have sufficiently been tested. Perhaps not, to quickly fix a security problem. But even in this case, this may be the right thing to do. > We know from some projects that they have regression testing we deem > sufficient to trust that assertion. But I'm not sure it's generally > true. Couldn't Debian packages have some field about the quality of regression testing? -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130403200748.ga6...@xvii.vinc17.org
