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Re: sarge and the Wall Street Journal



On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 03:47:47PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
> > Well, Sarge == stable _did_ make it to the news now, but 
> > probably not as we have hoped ... My ZDnet news agent mailed 
> > me this item this morning:
> >   "Debian drops ball on security updates"
> 
> There was a devel-announce about it as soon as it was discovered.
> The updated r0a images are already out. I don't think there are
> any sarge security updates yet anyway, are there? So the total
> damage of this is 0 so far 

That, of course, doesn't interest anybody.

> ZDnet are being silly.

Sure, but they wrote it and people read it.  And now they will think
'Ugh, sarge? Wasn't that this thing which has no security?'.  There is
obviously a problem here, and just saying that ZDnet is silly (which
they are, of course) will not solve it.


Michael



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