On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 09:32:59AM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > myh> On 2004-03-19, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > myh> Also, look at security updates. Updates are provided for > myh> stable and unstable almost immediately. Then those using > myh> testing distributions must wait the allotted amount of time > myh> before receiving the unstable update in testing. > > How long of a wait? > > If I understand this correctly, users of 'testing' (currently 'sarge') > can do *nothing* when new security problems arise? They must wait for > the fix in 'unstable' to make it into testing. > > Sounds like 'testing' contains a "window" during which "bad people" > could do "bad things" ...
Yup. Unfortunately, we can't do anything about this until a team turns up to do security updates for testing, which is a hard and time-consuming job. http://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
