On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 11:21:35PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:28:13AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > > >>Not that I am complaining because security updates are always good, but > >>how exactly did perl 5.6.1-8.2 make it into testing sometime in the last > >>couple of days? It didn't come from unstable, because unstable moved to > >>perl 5.8.0 a while ago, and I didn't know that there /was/ any other way > >>for updated software to make its way into testing. It appears to have > >>originally been a stable security update from the end of November. For > >>it to just now make it to testing implies that someone made a special > >>effort to upload it, but noone cares about security updates for testing, > >>right? This is just an abject curiosity question to see if anyone can > >>explain the mystery... > > > > > >Are you *sure* it came from testing? 'apt-cache policy perl-base' will > >tell you. It is in security.d.o, and this has caused a bunch of > >problems for sarge users :/ > > > > pretzalz@Pretzalz:~$ apt-cache policy perl-base > perl-base: > Installed: 5.6.1-8.2 > Candidate: 5.6.1-8.2 > Version Table: > 5.8.0-15 0 > 70 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages > *** 5.6.1-8.2 0 > 700 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > Yes, I am sure. :) The other clue was that I don't have any security > lines in my sources.list. ;) Heh, you're right. Sorry about that :) -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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