Adam Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-14-002-20-SC-DB
> 
> Someone with better knowledge of all the facts might want to comment on
> the claim that "Debian is always the last to fix security holes" and the
> tag team follow up "I've been fighting for months now to try to convince
> them to release an advisory or fix for ftpd..."

Of course, libc problems are a bit unfair for comparison.  Red Hat
runs the official CVS repository, and they probably knew about the
problem by mid-November or something like that (the fix was committed
on 2001-11-29, IIRC).

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