On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 01:58:16AM -0500, Zachary DeAquila wrote: > > What is policy on software updates to the 'stable' tree? Software there > is somewhat 'stale' and has unacceptable security risks such as Smail > lacking the anti-relay features, bind still being v4.9.6, etc. Should I > just not run 'stable' ? (This might mean I shouldn't run Debian at all, > I understand)
Uploads into stable are still possible, though these may only be
security fixes or fixes for critical bugs. These uploads go into
bo-updates and will be moved into bo later. Normal uploads have
to go into unstable. If you need/provide bo versions of software
please refer to bo-unstable. Inside of that directory you'll find
a README describing how to do versioning.
Anti-Relay is not a security problem, though there was a security
problem with Smail from bo. That's why it got updated.
Concerning bind the fixed version has already been uploaded into
bo-updates some time ago and was moved into bo yesterday.
Concerning security problems please refer to
http://www.debian.org/security/ and
debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
The security team publishes updates there.
Regards,
Joey, who is happy that Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1r7 materialized
yesteday.
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