Re: Upcoming changes in advisory format
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 09:53:56AM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> The side-effect of that is that you are now listing only the source
> package name, and not anymore the binary package names. But to do the
> upgrade, the administrator of the machine has to select the binary
> packages for upgrade, or, to check if the testing/sid version the
> machine has is new enough, check the installed version of all binary
> packages built from that source package.
I've often wished for an apt invocation which would select for upgrade
all packages derived from a named source package, for selective security
updates, but I've never really persued it.
Dominic.
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