[Techtalk] Using Debian Testing (Sarge) on production servers

[Carla Schroder]

On Friday 05 March 2004 7:35 pm, Mary wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2004, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > It doesn't make sense that Unstable would get security fixes before 
> > Testing... ???
> 
> The normal upload process is:
> 
> package maintainer creates package -> package maintainer uploads to
> unstable -> testing scripts upload to testing -> Debian stabilises and
> testing becomes stable
> 
> The normal process is bypassed for stable security updates obviously,
> but not for testing security updates, so packages follow the normal
> process of being uploaded to unstable and eventually moved to testing (I
> think the normal criteria is 10 days AND equal or less release critical
> bugs than the previous testing version, but manual overrides are
> possible).
> 
> In other words, unstable gets security updates earlier than testing
> because unstable is where new versions packages go first.
> 

Thanks! Time to go correct some articles.... !


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