Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 14:10, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> [2004-09-13 15:40]:
> > A while ago there was a discussion in which it was said that such
> > tools are rather useless (or even dangerous) if they don't get their
> > database updated in accordance with new viruses/security problems.
> >
> > Some of these systems are hence not suitable for a stable Debian
> > release where updates will only be made for security problems and
> > very important bugfixes.
>
> Maybe we should just relax the stable update policy for such packages,
> and others which would benefit from regular updates (e.g. drivers).
> --
> Martin Michlmayr
> tbm@cyrius.com
Are these not Security updates?
David
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