On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:01:19AM +0000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> John Ferlito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Just wondering what are the security.debian.org list of packages for
> > in the default sources.list. When security whole are found aren't the pacjages in
>the main tree updated? Or is it just a speed thing where security is updated much
>more rapidly than main to try and get patches out faster? ie rsyncd hourly rather
>than daily?
>
> It's a speed thing. The stable tree is never touched until a point release
> is made. So security fixes will stay on security.debian.org between point
> releases.
and i've never understood this..
debian has this wonderful "apt-get upgrade" command, yet they seem to
only want it for unstable.
so instead, packages get kept in security.d.o for a few months, and
anyone who mirrors it is chastised.
i don't see why the cd version has to match *exactly* whats on the ftp
site. surely easy/seamless upgrades of security fixes are more
important.
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