Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Scott wrote:
I was absolutely blown away by this:
The latest official Debian Sarge package for Firefox is for v 1.04!
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mozilla-firefox/
I'm rather surprised to see this. Why?
Firefox is currently @ 1.07 and every "point" release since 1.0 has been
due to security issues.
It's normal for the Debian security team to backport changes into the
existing code base in Debian. Thus I expect the Firefox 1.04 to be the
vanilla source 1.04 plus backported security fixes. This is a _good_
thing as it means less changes on an update. This is one of the strengths
of the Debian approach.
Rob
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