Re: Security updates vs. Sarge and Sid??
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 05:54:58PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote:
> Lou Losee said:
> > The posts that arrive from the Debian Security list show package updates
> > for Woody. How does one ensure that these same updates are applied when
> > running a mixed system (testing & stable)?
>
> As long as there aren't people working to put security updates into
> testing, you won't see any 'security team' updates to testing.
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/ (read the testing section)
>
> So you have to wait for the package maintainer to fix it, release the fix
> into unstable (which if you've been following the lists you'll notice it
> hasn't happened for the ssh package as of last night but the ssh update
> has been in stable for a couple of days.)
Erm ... OpenSSH has been fixed in unstable for just as long as it's been
fixed in stable (modulo the fact that unstable's only updated once a
day), thank you very much. I was up all Tuesday night doing it ...
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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