alt Hacker News> Debian can't start digesting them until they're already public
Not sure what you mean by this. Debian is able to handle coordinated disclosures (when they're actually coordinated), and get embargoed security updates out rapidly without breaking the embargo.
Is there some other aspect of this that you're referencing?
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pavon • today at 4:20 AM
The fact that the kernel security team has decided coordinating disclosure is someone else's problem so it happens inconsistently.
The key words there are "when they're actually coordinated". Debian doesn't own the Linux kernel, and the kernel developers don't bother with coordinated disclosure, so the happy path of coordinated disclosure only happens when reporters make the non-obvious choice of reporting vulnerabilities to people other than the maintainers.