On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 04:04:23PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Varga Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >don't use qpopper version <2.51 since it has security holes in it. > > > >there is a qpopper 2.3 debian package in stable, contact the maintainer to > >know whether it has fixes to close the sechole, if it is not fixed, then > >try to use the unstable. > > Ofcourse it was fixed. You don't think debian would distribute a qpopper > package with known r00t security holes in it for over a year do you ... > > Most of the 2.4 and early 2.5 qpopper packages had a license > that made it impossible to include it with Debian, so Debian shipped > with a fixed 2.3 instead. >
Now with latest version (2.53) license has changed so now it's possible to distribute latest version of qpopper with Debian. Just take a look at potato. -- o------------------o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski| _/_|_\ o------------------o (o\__/o)=))))))))))))) "Don't fix it if it isn't broken"
