Re: New to Debian (Gentoo user) - package management

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Subject: Re: New to Debian (Gentoo user) - package management
From: John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 08:28:26 -0600
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Reply-to: john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 0ab959da95v8@mids.svenhartge.de> (Sven Hartge's message of "Fri, 3 Jan 2014 15:18:00 +0100")
References: <[🔎] 52C6BED1.2010206@libertytrek.org> <[🔎] 0ab959da95v8@mids.svenhartge.de>

Sven Hartge writes:
> Depending on which version of Debian you installed, you will rarely get
> any updates at all. Wheezy (7.x) is stable and only get security updates
> and major bug fixes via point releases about every two months:
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases/PointReleases

Don't wait for the point releases.  You should have security in your
sources, subscribe to the security list, and do updates as required to
get security fixes.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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