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Re: What's wrong with debian?



On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:05:57AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:18:23PM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> > >Well you can use sarge, seems stable enough, however no
> > >security. Thats a major issue in my mind.
> > 
> > Could you explain that in newbie-ease?  I seem to be getting updates for 
> > sarge from security.debain.org.  Why do you say "no security"?  I elected 
> > to stay with sarge as it went stable FOR the security updates.
> 
> Sarge didn't get security updates back when it was Testing.  Now that it's
> Stable, it does.  Previous poster had forgotten that Sarge was now Stable. 
> (It was Testing for a seeming eternity.)
> -- 
> Carl Fink                                         carl@fink.to
Hi Carl,
IIRC the last 2 testing cycles have had security support SHORTLY BEFORE
they went stable. stable as per policy is the only one required to have
security support due to the scarcity of resources.
Cheers,
Kev
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