[Gnumed-devel] Re: debian volatile

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Jim Busser wrote:

> I am wondering whether, in the case of gnumed, there would be an argument to 
> use volatile, but only in the case where the gnumed-client that was in stable 
> would be found to create a serious data corruption to a medical record, or 
> otherwise misrepresent patient medical information, or otherwise cause some 
> risk to a real person.

In this case gnumed-client would deserve a release critical security bug and
those bugs can be fixed in Debian stable (if they are fixed in the form of a
patch against the version in stable which *only* fixes this problem).  This is
not at all a target for volatile.

> Or do we think that everyone who would be using gnumed should be expecting to 
> get new (including critical) updates via testing?

No.  The other option would be backports.org for "not so critical" problems
as I lined out in one of my mails last week.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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