Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie
Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 08:33:00PM -0700, Scott wrote:
>
>>The latest official Debian Sarge package for Firefox is for v 1.04!
>>http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mozilla-firefox/
>.... if normal Debian practices are being followed,
> security fixes are backported to stable, rather than new and untested
> versions being packaged for stable.
> This means that the v1.04 available from s.d.o would have v1.07's security
> fixes in it. I'm sure you can review the package changelog to find out for
> sure.
Now that you mention it, Ubuntu used to do this the same way till they
came to their senses (and after a bajillion user complaints).
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Scott
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