Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:15:18AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:54:57AM +0100, Peter J Ross wrote:
>
> > If a package in testing is the same version as in stable, the security
> > updates ought to work for it ...
>
> ... right up until there are major library changes in Unstable. Such
> changes are happening now. Once that happens the dependencies for the
> Stable package will tend to be unmet.
Once a new version of a package arrives in Testing, security updates
for the older version won't apply to it, so it ought to be safe to add
the security repository as a source while using Testing. Your
objection is, however, valid when one tries to downgrade a package
manually.
It's not a perfect solution, and, as Testing changes, it will work
less and less often, but it will help in some cases, and this is one
such case.
--
PJR :-)
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