[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#781232: Bug#766884: libxml2 broken in sid for months already

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2015-09-04 21:36:53 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Sep 2015, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2015-09-04 13:59:02 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > > On Fri, 04 Sep 2015, Aron Xu wrote:
> > > > I don't want to close it, nor I want make this version to testing, so
> > > > please don't lower the severity, as said above.
> > > 
> > > Why don't you want this version into testing?
> > 
> > I'm not the maintainer, but I think that it is probably cleaner to
> > have testing version = stable version until this bug is fixed (it
> > would be different if testing had already diverged from stable).
> 
> "I think it's cleaner" is a bit light in arguments.
> 
> The stable and testing versions have 3 open security issues.
> The unstable one has none. 

My argument is that:

1. stable must not have security issues, i.e. all security issues
   should be fixed ASAP. AFAIK, security issues in stable are
   generally fixed before unstable.

2. Given (1), if testing version = stable version, it is as easy to
   fix testing.

On the other hand, is it really necessary to have unstable migrate
to testing right now?

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