Charles Marcus put forth on 2/1/2010 4:17 PM: > On 2010-02-01 4:05 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> My Roundcube package is currently up to date, and it is a standard >> Debian package: >> >> [02:21:52][r...@greer]/$ aptitude show roundcube >> Package: roundcube >> New: yes >> State: installed >> Automatically installed: no >> Version: 0.2.2-1~bpo50+1 > > Eh? 0.3.1 is the current version, so how is 0.2.2 'up to date'?
The current discussion relates to keeping security patches current. http://www.debian.org/security/ All security flaw related new code is back ported and stable versions patched. You seem to be of the mistaken impression that one must have the latest 'release version' of a software package to have the latest security patches. This is not true of any *nix distro or Windows for that matter. Heck, M$ is still sending out security patches via automatic updates to Windows 2000 machines (until June 10 apparently). If there is a security flaw identified in the version of Roundcube I'm running (or any package), at some point a patched version will be made available in the security repository. Automated or manual upgrades via apt or aptitude will pull down the patched package and install it. -- Stan
