[Tails-dev] Relative security of Debian unstable / testing /…

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Autor: Andreas Kuckartz
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Para: The Tails public development discussion list
Asunto: [Tails-dev] Relative security of Debian unstable / testing / stable
The current official Debian position on security regarding unstable and
stable:

"Q: How is security handled for unstable?

"A: The short answer is: it's not. Unstable is a rapidly moving target
and the security team does not have the resources needed to properly
support it. If you want to have a secure (and stable) server you are
strongly encouraged to stay with stable."

http://www.debian.org/security/faq.en.html

But my empirical observations are that this has not been true for
several years now: Debian unstable has been promptly supported with
security fixes.

Is anybody aware of any research regarding the relative security of
Debian unstable / testing / stable or similar Linux distributions?

Cheers,
Andreas