On Mi, 12 nov 14, 18:54:49, Christian Seiler wrote: > > The only 'problem' I remember is that sometimes it takes a while for > updates to actually go on to backports; per backports "policy" usually > the packages have to be in testing already before the backported ones > can be uploaded, which means there will be an additional delay until > fixes are in there. > > That said, for critical security fixes, I had the impression that > package maintainers were doing a really good job for getting them into > wheezy-backports in the last few months, at least for the packages I am > using. So consider this to be a HUGE thank you to everyone involved in > that!
Security fixes are exempt from the usual policy (must be in testing), but it's up to the maintainer to provide the updated packages, since backports are *not* supported by the Security Team. In addition to the usual debian-security-announce one should also subscribe to debian-backports-announce. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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