Re: Stable not same as potato in security archive?
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:53:07AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> I noticed the announcement of the patch to SSH (version 3.3) in
> security-announce. I tried to upgrade to the patched Potato version.
> This was the pertinent line in my sources.list:
>
> deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
> ^^^^^^
>
> After apt-get update, I could only fetch 3.0. But I noticed that on
> another system, I was able to get 3.3. It had:
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free
> ^^^^^^
> in sources.list.
>
> After changing my sources.list to that on the first system, and doing
> apt-get update, I was able to get ssh 3.3.
>
> I thought potato and stable were the same thing right now!? No?
They are, but the potato version of ssh 3.3 was only added quite
recently; the first announcement on -security-announce was when the
woody version was prepared. Are you sure you didn't just get your timing
wrong?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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