On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:39:25PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > Security patches go into stable first. Sid/unstable is generally > upgraded pretty promptly too. They're working on a system (AFAIK) to > allow security patches to be fast tracked into testing.
Not to be fast tracked in to testing. To be fast tracked in to woody, which will soon be stable. Packages going in to testing still need to go through the requisite test period. They can be uploaded with a higher priority, which will (in theory) get them in to testing sooner, but not if a critical bug is filed against the new version or something that keeps it out. It's conceivable that testing won't get the security fix at all until it approaches release time. In reality, the community wouldn't let that happen, but I don't recommend relying on that for a critical system. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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