Re: Why no Opera?

[icelinux@icelinux.net]

Quoting Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>:

> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 08:19:14PM +0000, icelinux@icelinux.net wrote:
> >  I am wondering if you have anything to elaborate with or if that was
> > just a vague unsubstantiated statement. As Opera frequently releases
> > security updates packaged for the latest version of Debian I do not see
> > what potential problems coud result other than needing to roll out a new
> > version in the security repository.
>
>   because security updates in debian are supposed to be ad minimum. We
> don't know what opera puts in their upgrades. Possibly worse than the
> bug they fix.
 Ok. Sow how are security updates done in Debian? Do you just patch  
the old software or do you test and release a new version. At least no  
one has found the new bugs yet, a few days delay could be big trouble.
 There appear to be several spaces before my sig.

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