On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:53:16AM -0500, stan wrote: > Is it possible that some mechanisim could be set up such that a package > which has recieved a security related update in stable, could become the > latest package for testing? > > I'm trying to think of a way to leverage the fact the security issues _are_ > being addressed in stable into the testing regim. > > Perhpas someone who understands the Debian packagin system better than I > could comment on whether this makes sense or not?
Wouldn't work, for reasons not particularly related to the packaging system itself. Consider: Right now, the current stable version of exim is 3.35. The current testing version of exim is 3.36. exim 3.36 may or may not incorporate features which are not present in version 3.35. If it does and if the packaging system were to declare a security-patched 3.35 to be more current than testing's 3.36, any sites which run testing and use those features will break. Your idea could probably work if stable and testing are both based on the same upstream revision (although I wouldn't be terribly surprised to find that there are cases where it still wouldn't), but it would definitely be likely to cause problems when testing has a more recent upstream version than stable. -- The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened. - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]