On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 11:43:20PM -0400, Gilles Pelletier wrote:
> Excuse me if I snip your post. I believe you have some very
> interesting ongoing projects, but unfortunately, I'm not myself a
> programmer and I can't speak for Klaus and all the good people here.
Sure. And I'm very interested in hearing them also.
> One thing is sure though. After all the talking, the problem I wanted
> to see somehow addressed -- which, you'll remember, is having the
> security updates come out sooner for unstable -- remains whole.
>
> To tell you the truth, as a user, this is what bugs me the most and it
> pretty much obnubilates any other consideration.
Well, it was somehow implicit. As I see it, giving money to Knoppix
won't make it to have security patches, as giving it to Debian won't by
itself. If you need that, you need to directly pay a person to do that.
When you can face security problems in Debian is in testing, because
packages must wait a time and dependecies to be fullfiled. Usually
packages in unstable are being updated quickly, but still you can have
a person taking care of that.
If Knoppix starts to be more integrated in Debian, as I propose,
releasing a new version with a security package which has been uploaded
to Sid will be very easy, and a lot of people will benefit for that.
After all, if you're really so concerned about security you should be
using Debian stable, not a mixture of testing and unstable :-)
--
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
jsogo@debian.org
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