faster -- Re: Debian security being trashed in Linux Today comments
hi ya
i did an dist-upgrade&& update&& upgrade today... and saw sudo get update
before fixes to sudo was posted to bugtraq
c ya
alvin
On 15 Jan 2002, Adam Warner wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 09:44, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Adam Warner <lists@consulting.net.nz> writes:
> >
> > > http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-14-002-20-SC-DB
> > >
> > > Someone with better knowledge of all the facts might want to comment on
> > > the claim that "Debian is always the last to fix security holes" and the
> > > tag team follow up "I've been fighting for months now to try to convince
> > > them to release an advisory or fix for ftpd..."
> >
> > Of course, libc problems are a bit unfair for comparison. Red Hat
> > runs the official CVS repository, and they probably knew about the
> > problem by mid-November or something like that (the fix was committed
> > on 2001-11-29, IIRC).
>
> I've just found that some anonymous poster promoted the Linux Today
> comments on Debian Planet:
>
> http://www.debianplanet.org//article.php?sid=568
>
> At this rate Slashdot isn't far off ;-)
>
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