Re: Small correction to security pages
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 06:35:01PM +0200, Morten Brix Pedersen wrote:
> > I don't think so. It has different meanings. If you would change it
> > to stable instead of potato you'll be tracking woody once it's released
> > and might end up with security updates from woody that might be
> >
> > a) uninstallable for woody dependencies and you might have potato in
> > your other deb-lines
> >
> > b) unnoticed system-upgrades when woody is released. This can lead to
> > different severe problems, like huge not expected downloads, or even
> > service breakage due to changed setup/syntax and such.
>
> Funny, I just installed a woody system today, and when asked to get
> security updates from security.debian.org, it added the lines as
> *stable*.
>
> Compared to your (fine) comments, thats quite ironic I'd say.
Bugs happen <shrug>
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