On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:19:55AM +0200, Sander Smeenk wrote:
> 
> The problem is that the buglist i'm having on snort now, consists of
> mainly bugs filed on the stable package of snort, which has been long
> solved in the later releases of snort that didn't make it in the
> release of Debian.

So, tag them as such.  If you close them, they will just be reopened by
the next individual to find it in the stable package.  Tagging it with
the release effected.

> We've been over this in debian-security before. I fixed the 1.8.4
> package once, it got rejected, and I tried to have 2.0.x installed in
> Stable, but ofcourse, you can't put a new upstream version in a
> released stable Debian.

Actually that's not true, as an example I refer you to SSH.

-- 
Jamin W. Collins

This is the typical unix way of doing things: you string together lots
of very specific tools to accomplish larger tasks. -- Vineet Kumar


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