Re: Re: Re: No security support for binutils and libqt5webkit5, what to do?
> > > Binutils is supported upstream
> >
> > that's reassuring. But were is Debian communicating this important bit
> > of information?
> I am not so sure that it is reassuring.
> Question is not if upstream supports their own (continuously changing)
> code, but if the stable code distributed with Debian is supported.
I was supposing that Mark's answer implied that (against general
policies of debian and for reasons unknown to me) in this case security
changes of upstream would be passed on to debian, even if binutils is
"not covered by security support". If this is (probably?) not the case,
the fact that binutils is supported by upstream of course is of no help.
It's difficult to swallow that in *stable* debian should leave its users
alone as to the security of such a central peace of software as
binutils. So I'm still hoping to find out that security updates for
binutils in debian stable are in some (maybe unconventional way)
secured.
Andreas
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