Possible security troubles and the 'new' Debian way...

[Paul Rightley <pright@lanl.gov>]

I like the new way of making releases into stable (i.e. holding
them in bo-updates and testing them and then moving them into
stable when everything checks out).  The only concern that I
have with this method regards security updates.  For those
of us who are lazy (and brainless?) we do not always think of
looking at bo-updates - rather we just point dselect to stable.
As I understand it, the security fix for ldso is still sitting
in bo updates and is not in stable.  Although I am not direly
in need of such security updates in a hurry, it seems strange to
leave important fixes such as this out of stable.  One of the
reasons that I chose Debian was Bruce's strong commitment (in
my perception) to security.

Just my $0.02

Paul Rightley


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