[Secure-testing-team] another question: backport fixes?

[Robert Lemmen]

hi everyone,

something else i would like to ask: in stable security, fixes to
security problems must be isolated and the version in stable must be
patched with this, is this also true for testing security? so assuming i
have a version 1.1 in testing with a security problem and a version 1.2
in unstable where the problem is fixed, but additional features are
implemented as well. do you have to isolate the security patch or just
update the whole package. if you want testing security to help stable
security, then you need to isolate the problem, but in some cases it
just doesn't make sense: e.g. when the version in stable is not affected
and the one in unstable is expected to progress to testing soon.

perhaps someone could explain this to me

cu  robert

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Robert Lemmen                               http://www.semistable.com 
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