Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

[Jan Lühr <jluehr@gmx.net>]

Greetings,

Am Montag, 27. Juni 2005 20:10 schrieb Adam Majer:
> Jan Lühr wrote:
> >Greetings,
> >
> >Am Montag, 27. Juni 2005 15:54 schrieb Carl-Eric Menzel:
> >>Does anybody know what the actual problem is, i.e. why there are no
> >>updates?
> >
> >This is not an "actual" problem, this problem is rather imho structual. In
> >it's last one to two years Woody was starving out of security updates.
> >(Samba, Mozilla, Kernel, etc.).
>
> These are much less of a problem since they deal with either Intranet
> only applications (Samba), client side applications (mozilla) or the
> kernel that one usually rolls their own for their servers. What I really
> care about from Debian security team is up-to-date fixes for server
> applications that can be exposed to the Internet. For example, apache,
> squid, spamassassin, postfix, sendmail, exim, etc...

I'm not refering to exploits / bugs in general. I'm refering to the 
patch-port-situation in Debian.

Keep smiling
yanosz