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

[Aron Xu]

On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Sep 2015, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> 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.
>
> No, that's not the general case. And feel free to fix stable.
> I fixed unstable because it was the right thing to do given
> that I was going to upload something to unstable.
>

You are welcomed to "feel free" to fix stable.

>> 2. Given (1), if testing version = stable version, it is as easy to
>>    fix testing.
>
> This just proves that you don't know how Debian works. A fix for testing
> must come via unstable not from stable.
>

Wonders where is such a rule?

>> On the other hand, is it really necessary to have unstable migrate
>> to testing right now?
>
> It's the recommended way to get fixes in testing.
>
> This is my last answer in this thread because it's getting ridiculous.
>

Ah, ;-)

Cheers,
Aron