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



On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:58:54AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> 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.

That's not what the security archive is for. Granted, the updates are
needed for the security of your system, but that doesn't make it a
security update, does it?

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