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Re: Where to get updates



On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Desai, Jason wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> Can someone tell me the difference between packages in the
> dists/potato-proposed-updates and packages on the security.debian.org site?
> I had been using the proposed-updates in my sources.list file for a while,
> but I have not found the updated bind package there.  But I did find it on
> the security.debian.org site.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Jase

The proposed updates are bug updates to packages that are going to be put
into the next release of potato.  However security.debian.org is for
priority security updates, if you are using potato then you should have
that in your sources file as well.

Take care - Rab

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