On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 01:48:12PM -0500, Brian Thompson wrote: > Thank you for the detailed response, Andrei. > > On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 21:18 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Testing doesn't have any direct security support > > Is that 100% true? I was originally referring to > http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/testing-security > when I was talking about "testing security updates". I understand that most > mirrors don't contain this suite, but it seems to be working pretty well along > with the "main" mirror I am using for testing updates (i.e. one that is closer > in proximity).
Several years ago, a decision was made to offer a repository for security updates in testing. Perhaps some packages even appeared there, though I cannot confirm that. There have not been any packages there for a *really* long time. It's just empty.