由 kanru » 週三 5月 31, 2006 11:21 am
Q: How is security handled for testing and unstable?
A: The short answer is: it's not. Testing and unstable are rapidly moving targets and the security team does not have the resources needed to properly support those. If you want to have a secure (and stable) server you are strongly encouraged to stay with stable. However, work is in progress to change this, with the formation of a testing security team which has begun work to offer security support for testing, and to some extent, for unstable.
Q: How does testing get security updates?
A: Security updates will migrate into the testing distribution via unstable. They are usually uploaded with their priority set to high, which will reduce the quarantine time to two days. After this period, the packages will migrate into testing automatically, given that they are built for all architectures and their dependencies are fulfilled in testing.
The testing security team also makes security fixes available in their repository when the normal migration process is not fast enough.