Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:04:08AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins 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.
>
> Actually that's not true, as an example I refer you to SSH.
A stunning example of what a terrible idea it is to do this. That update
was forced due to conditions created by upstream, and caused a great deal of
problems, created a lot of work for the security team, and caused downtime
on many user systems.
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- mdz
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