Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Tomas Fasth <tomfa@debian.org> writes:

> Shouldn´t this be handled as security updates anyway? The security
> team could expand it's scope to take care of these matters as well.
> That would make things work within current scheme, provided that
> they get enough volunteers to handle the workload.

It should be easy to get the volunteers.  The assumption here is that
the maintainers of the packages in question are willing and interested
to keep it up to date, but don't have a way to push the changes to
users.

Of course, they do have a way: the security archive.