On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 09:44, Florian Weimer wrote: > 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).
I've just found that some anonymous poster promoted the Linux Today comments on Debian Planet: http://www.debianplanet.org//article.php?sid=568 At this rate Slashdot isn't far off ;-) Regards, Adam