Security updates are too slow or none existant

[Bart Martens]

On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 01:52, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
> However, I dont see this as an issue. I'm running a local repository at 
> my work and it is in sync with the main mirrors. All the fixes are 
> available on testing as soon as they are available for RH9 , for 
> example. So , I believe that we , as fedora users , are given a better 
> product , as the patches are being tested a lot more on real conditions 
> before being officially released on the updates channel. I use the 
> testing repositories on my desktop machines to help testing the packages 
> before they are released. On my servers , I simply dont use them , 
> because downtime isnt acceptable for us (even the chance of having 
> downtime isnt acceptable).

No, "testing" is not the place for security updates. When the security
updates are released for rh9, the security updates for fc1 should
already have gone through "testing", and be released to the public.