On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:41:49AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >I was under the impression that you needed to keep your security sources > >pointing at stable, since that's the only place that emergency security > >patches get placed consistently. Am I incorrect? > > Since most security updates for stable are going to be a version lower > than the version currently in testing(since everything is backported), > you are never going to get them anyway so having it there isn't going to > help. Mostly. Unfortunately, a lot of people have that stable security line on their testing systems, which recently pulled in a new version of Perl. Of course, since sarge has been stalled for months, this new version (from stable!) is newer than the version everything else in sarge expects, making a bunch of things uninstallable; f'r instance, scrollkeeper. -rob
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