On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 12:27:21PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Someone finds hole and notifies maintainer and/or security team. > Security is notified if they don't know already. > Maintainer is notified if he doesn't know already. > Security team and/or maintainer fixes hole. > Security team NMU's stable-proposed-updates. > Maintainer uploads fixed version to Unstable, perhaps before security team > fixes Stable. > > Often the fix for Unstable is to upload the new, fixed upstream version. > Sometimes the newer version that is already in Unstable doesn't have the > hole. The fix must be backported for Stable and so Stable can take longer > to fix then Unstable. > > Testing doesn't get fixed until the fixed version propagates to it from > Unstable.
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