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Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security



On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 08:39:43PM +0200, Marek Olejniczak wrote:

> I don't understand the philosophy of Debian security team. It's really so 
> difficult to push into sarge spamassassin 3.0.4 which is not vulnerable? 
> This version is in Debian testing and why this version can't be push into 
> stable?

  In some cases fixing a problem, which an upstream will not, or
 which the package maintainer cannot is *very* hard work.  (eg. Mozilla/
 Kernel images).

  In this particular case pushing the package itself isn't a hard
 job - the problem we're currently seeing isn't that the job is
 hard, but that only a very small number of people have the 
 authority/ability to push the update out.

Steve
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