> > > > Do you think that Linux Mint is a vulnerable system ? Really ? > > https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/rules > > this is the list of packages it will never update, instead of just > integrating changes properly with the packagaes in the ubuntu archive > they instead suppress doing (security) updates at all for them. >
It looks like that is not quite the case. Packages that are marked as 4 and 5 are not updated by default, whereas 1-3 are. This is a setting which can be changed: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=111929 Still probably insecure, but I understand they are trying to balance between security and regressions.
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