On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 09:02:23AM -0400, Wolf Halton wrote: > I am sorry to hear your site was cracked. I run Drupal on Debian as well. > The fundamental flaw here is the lag time between drupal update and > packaging on debian. I run drupal 7 for new sites. Installs are not the > simplest things in the world, but it comes in handy in an ongoing fashion > to have done the work. That way you are sure of your database user and pass > as well as exact location of files. > As an engineer, you reasonably want to make the process as simple as > possible but no simpler. Packages with public web interfaces like drupal > take more care and feeding than any other kind of package I can think of. > It is not a Debian issue. Any Linux packager would have a hard time keeping > up with a community-maintained monster like drupal. Even if you are running > Sid, not suggested for production environment, there is too much lag to > trust package maintainers to do the updates for you. > If this is true, then I have to wonder what is the point of having a Debian package for Drupal at all. I always figured that there was a benefit in using a Debian-packaged version of software like Drupal, MediaWiki, Wordpress, etc. because I wouldn't have to do manual updates in order to get security fixes.
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