On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 17:37, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > With the unsolved problem that the db format changes and the old > > format is not supported anymore, so the problem of unsupportable and > > security critical software is only postponed, not solved. > > You will always have instances where software in stable that has a > dynamic component (eg. snort) could become outdated enough some time > in the future that it ceases to be usefull. However, just because it's > possible that the package _may_ become useless doesn't mean that it > shouldn't be distributed while it remains usefull. Agreed. I don't know enough of these products, but I'd propose it would depend on how likely this is to happen. Some products may have a tradition of breaking their 'database (or whatever)' format, others might not. cheers -- vbi -- secure email with gpg http://fortytwo.ch/gpg
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