Author: joeyh Date: 2005-08-26 15:09:54 +0000 (Fri, 26 Aug 2005) New Revision: 1656 Added: doc/announce.2 Log: draft announcement Added: doc/announce.2 ==================================================================--- doc/announce.2 2005-08-26 14:43:08 UTC (rev 1655) +++ doc/announce.2 2005-08-26 15:09:54 UTC (rev 1656) @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +DRAFT. Slashdot on penalty of death. DRAFT + + +Subject: announcing the beginning of security support for testing + +The Debian testing security team is pleased to announce the beginning of +full security support for Debian''s testing distribution. We have spent the +past year building the team, tracking and fixing security holes, and +creating our infrastructure, and now the final piece is in place, and +we are able to offer security updates and advisories for testing. + +We invite Debian users who are currently running testing, or who would like +to switch to testing, to subscribe to the secure-testing-announce mailing +list, which will be used to announce security updates. +<http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/secure-testing-announce> + +We also invite you to add the following line to your apt sources.list file, +and run "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" to make the security updates +available: + +deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-security-updates etch/security-updates main contrib non-free + +Note that some initial advisories have already been posted to the list +and are already available in the repository. These include: + +DTSA-1-1 kismet - +XXXXXX complete + +Note that this announcement does not mean that testing is free of security +issues. Several security issues are present in unstable, and an even larger +quantity are present in testing. Our beginning of security support only +means that we are now able to begin making security fixes available for +testing nearly as quickly as for unstable. The testing security team makes +statistics about what security holes are still open available on our +website, and users should use this information to make their own decision +about whether testing is secure enough for production use. + +For more information about the testing security team, see our web site. +<http://secure-testing.alioth.debian.org/>.