Re: how to update packages now sarge is stable?

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 07/28/2005 07:24 am, Nate Duehr wrote:
> Daniel Pittman wrote:
> > Nate Duehr wrote:
> >>>To get security updates on standard Debian, (including backported
> >>>security patches), add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list
> >>>and then do an apt-get update & apt-get upgrade.
> >>>
> >>>deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
> >>
> >>We all mentioned that a week ago - but Firefox 1.0.5 and 1.0.6 which are
> >>both arguably security releases are not available from the security team
> >>(yet).
> >
> > Given the Debian security and packaging policies, they /wont/ be
> > available as part of Debian/stable.
> >
> > The security fixes from them will be backported to the version of
> > Firefox that was included in /stable, though, and the package will be
> > released with the problems solved.
> >
> > Regards,
> >        Daniel
>
> True, true.

I removed Firefox and installed a fixed version from a tar.gz package, because 
I did not want to wait for a Debian package.  IIRC Konqueror has not been 
fixed but the latest Opera version is fixed.


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