George Borisov wrote: > Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > >>Wouldn't mixing stable and testing be less secure than using >>backports? Or is security support for testing good enough to rely on >>for (some packages on) production servers? > > > Supposedly testing gets security updates now. It is in > security.debian.org together with stable. It is a relatively recent > thing, so the information is a bit patchy and contradictory at times. > > I would be interested in finding out more. > >
That is an indication that we are nearing release in a few months. In particular, I think it is being done earlier for Etch so that the same infrastructre problems that happened right after the Sarge release are not repeated. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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