Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:18:00AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > > this same empirical evidence has also proved that 'stable' is LESS
> > > stable and reliable and secure than 'unstable'. the few debian boxes
> > > which i know of that have been compromised were cracked BECAUSE they
> > > were still running stable and had older versions of various programs
> > > which had known security holes.
> >
> > Uh, which were the packages in question? Did you report it at the
> > time?
>
> no need, the holes were already well known - and fixed in unstable.
Security fixes have to be (and are) fixed in stable, too!
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