On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 10:55:34PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > It is important to read the advisories before installing the updates when > stability is important. If there are special instructions, warnings, etc. > for an update, they will be in the advisory. For example, in the case of > DSA-134, it explained why we were not able to backport a fix (thanks to > OpenBSD). Of course. My point was that this sort of thing would become more common if we made it a habit of installing new versions into stable rather than just patching the specific bug. I value the fact that updates won't randomly cause problems as occasionally happens on a certain other operating system. In this case it was a matter of putting "Protocol 2,1" into a few key ssh_config files. -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > "All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good > men to do nothing." - Edmond Burke > "The penalty good people pay for not being interested in politics is to be > governed by people worse than themselves." - Plato
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