Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie
Am 2005-11-12 21:59:22, schrieb Marc Wilson:
> Myself, I don't use Crapfox, and therefore don't pay any attention to its
> Debian versioning, but 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.
No, 1.04 has NONE 1.07 security fixes in it.
1.04 from Sarge IS the version 1.07 from Etch.
Backporting from security fixes in Mozilla or Firefox are to heavy
so they have considered to use 1.07 and rename it for Sarge.
Please consider rteading the changelog.
Greetings
Michelle
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