http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-bug-security
in particular "5.8.5.3 Preparing packages to address security issues" will answer your question Fabio On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 06:36:06PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > I've some questions for you, first. > > > Would you mind, please, to explain to me why back-porting a patch for a > > > buggy package in stable would be better than releasing a new package for > > > the > > > stable distribution? > > > > Do you mind taking this discussion to a public mailing list so that I don't > > have to explain over and over? > > The kind of patch we were talking about was for a security fix. I was asking > this question to Matt because the new package i'd like to release for stable > also fixes many other bugs. > > I'm sorry if some of you might think this question to be dumb or stupid, but > it's not obvious to me. > > Please, please, please: no reference/flame about releasing new stable > distribution more often. That would not be the point. > > ciao, > P.S.: Matt, if you felt this question to be common, it might be worthy to add > some/your explanations to the developers-reference too. > -- Our mission: make IPv6 the default IP protocol "We are on a mission from God" - Elwood Blues http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-nanog-200210-ipv6isp/mgp00004.html
