[Secure-testing-team] Security update for fuse

[Andrew Pollock]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:11:29PM +0200, Ulf Harnhammar wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:49:01PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > I think the biggest misnomer with testing-security is its name. Think of it
> > as sarge-security. This is why it was a blocker for the release - we needed
> > it for after sarge became stable. So what was testing-security just got
> > promoted to stable-security when we released sarge. Arguably the
> > wood-security stuff should get recycled into etch-security, but I think that
> > we provide oldstable security support for a bit, so we either need to go
> > through the hassle of setting up etch-security now, or wait until resources
> > are freed up from oldstable-security.
> 
> This testing security list was created recently, but Debian has released many
> times before. How was this type of problem handled earlier? (Simultaneous
> upgrades for potato and slink, for instance.)
> 

It was a similar release blocker for woody IIRC. I can't speak for anything
prior to that. You'd need to read the mailing list archives.

regards

Andrew