Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 13:46 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> 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.
I thought that in those cases they actually bumped up the version
number.
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