Re: apache2 security update

[davidson@freevolt.org]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, Dr. John A. Zoidberg MD wrote:

> This post concerns:
>
> Debian Security Advisory DSA-3796-1 (appended below)
>
> The package involved is apache2.
>
> I have two "live" internet webservers, one an uptodate jessie, the
> other a long-maintained wheezy. The jessie machine upgraded easily
> to the new apache2 packages, but apt on my wheezy does not find any
> to install.
>
> This line is in my sources.list:
>
> http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
>
> The above-noted Advisory (see below) only mentions new apache2
> security upgrades for jessie, stretch and sid. May I safely assume
> that in fact there is no update to be applied for apache2 running in
> wheezy?

OP might find the long thread on the debian-lts mailing list that
begins here informative (though I have not read it myself):

 Wheezy update of apache2?
 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2016/12/msg00142.html

Hope this helps.