On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 08:51:56PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > I guess I still don't completely understand the Debian system. Why > > would I not get security patches running testing...which I think is > > really Etch now ? > > Security support for etch started around the freeze, IIRC.
I think it actually started well before the freeze, but seems like it moved around a bit. > > I guess it is just too much work for the security team to support and > fix sid, stable and testing, ie. to fix three different versions of a > software just because of one security problem (in the case of stable and > testing the fixes have to be backported). of course, by giving security support for testing, do we sort of de-facto get some security support for sid? What is the path for a security patch to testing? does it run through sid like any other patch? A > > Johannes > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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