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Re: Apt-get only security patches



On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 10:03:40AM -0400, Mike Dresser said:
> Actually, mime-support had a security fix not all that long ago.  You
> should let that one go through.
> 
> http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-292
> 
> I'm trying to picture how there could be a security hole in kdewallpapers,
> but yet it's on the Security page.
> 
> kdebase looks like it was updated, and kdewallpapers is a subpackage of
> that and got updated for some reason.

When a source package is updated for whatever reason, security included,
all the .debs are automatically rebuilt from the new source package.  I 
agree that kdewallpapers is perhaps a bit silly, but it's a by-product 
of the automated build process.

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