Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing

[Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr>]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 03:57:45PM +0200, Sander Smeenk wrote:
> Instead I provide signed backported packages on p.d.o which I will keep
> 'semi up to date'.
> 
> Before you object to this rather 'rude' bughandling, please keep in mind
> that version 1.8.4 of snort, which is in stable, has 3 severe security
> exploits, and is completely outdated in catching crooks (rulefiles) and
> detection mechanisms. Not to speak of package stability ;)
> 
> It's for the users best interrest that I tell them to use the new version.
> 
> [2] deb http:///people.debian.org/~ssmeenk/snort-stable-i386/ ./
               ~ Typo.

I've upgraded to this version and it has required me to press y to replace
modified conffiles in /etc/snort/rules/ about two dozen times, while I'm
pretty sure I never touched any of them. That's an pretty impressive amount
of annoyance you managed to cause there.

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