Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:37:03PM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:19:55AM +0200, Sander Smeenk wrote:
> > We've been over this in debian-security before. I fixed the 1.8.4
> > package once, it got rejected, and I tried to have 2.0.x installed in
> > Stable, but ofcourse, you can't put a new upstream version in a released
> > stable Debian.
>
> Why did it get rejected? I'm surprised about that. As of putting a new
> upstream version in a released stable Debian it did happen in some ocasion
> (openssh anyone?)
Considering the disaster that the openssh update to potato was, and the
bugs it caused, I'm not sure that that's a good example to bring up if
you're *advocating* upgrading a package to a new upstream version ...
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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