Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9
On Thu 25 Jan 2018 at 09:31:27 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 03:24:21PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2018-01-24 11:19:36 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > To use a package from experimental, you must download it directly, and
> > > install it directly. You don't use apt or its cousins, unless it's
> > > to backfill dependencies (apt-get -f install) from your actual release.
> >
> > aptitude installs experimental packages automatically.
>
> It is terrifying.
>
> (Seriously, if you've configured it to do that, WHY?!? Do you hate
> your computer so much that you want it to die?)
Perhaps they haven't spotted the depository's symlink
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1176 1176 12 Aug 04 2008 rc-buggy -> experimental
Cheers,
David.
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