On Thursday 13 November 2008, "diane mittnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?': >On 11/12/08, S.D.Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:07:29 -0500 (EST), Doug Mitton in >> >> gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: >>> Yes, I agree BUT by update you keep updated in your current version >>> "stream". That I did. I don't always jump to be the first to use a >>> new release "beta" as I'm not always interested in working through the >>> new BUGS. >> >> Well you should if only for the security issues surrounding the older >> versions ! > >You aren't suggesting that a Debian Stable user run a mixed >Stable/Testing or Stable/Testing/Sid setup just to run the latest >Firefox, are you?
I was fairly sure the iceweasel that fixes his problem was 2.0, and I thought that was in etch. Maybe not -- backports for one package seems like something of a reasonable compromise. Well, if they want the latest firefox and understand what that means, yes. Have stable be your "Default-Release" and pin individual packages you want from testing @ priority 950 and pin individual packges you want from sid @ priority 990. Debian's package management was designed by people that do mixed stable/testing/unstable boxes themselves. It's not too hard to do, but does require a bit of reading (documentation) and writing (or editing configuration files by hand). >Or a Debian Stable user forego the packaging system and all its >benefits including easy security updates, and install/compile the >latest Firefox and then have to monitor mailing lists and security >sites daily/hourly to check for security holes/workarounds/patches? Well, that's just stupid. :P Stable always gets backported security fixes. Testing has a security repository right now, too. Unstable get security fixes as part of the unstable churn. If you want security fixes, you best bet is to stay with the official repositories; not install stuff yourself. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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