[Secure-testing-team] ongoing security discussions

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 04:34:05PM -0500, micah wrote:
> Additionally, AJ references his blog post[2] that discusses work he has
> been doing to create embargoed vs. unembargoed queues for
> security.debian.org. I have been working with him to test out his
> changes and to take notes on the processes and quirks involved. This
> goes a long way towards allowing for testing-security to use
> security.debian.org queues instead of the alternative queues that we
> currently have setup. This is beneficial for a number of reasons. Some
> of them include: eliminating the need for the user to have to know Yet
> Another Apt Source (YAAS); allows for the testing-security team to be
> more officially underneath the project umbrella; and clears the way for
> the possibility of having one Security Team (instead of two) separated
> only along public vs. embargoed lines, rather than stable vs. testing.

- Allowing automatic propagation of security fixes from testing-security to
  testing-proposed-updates *and* unstable

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon at debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/
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