Re: Security concerns on stable/unstable

2003-01-12 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Thanks everybody for the help. Now it is clearer for me! Cheers, Bruno. On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 21:49, nate wrote: > Bruno Diniz de Paula said: > > > the unstable version. This would mean that, in terms of solved bugs in the > > *sofware* that could cause a security flaw, both woody and sid are ex

Re: Security concerns on stable/unstable

2003-01-11 Thread nate
Bruno Diniz de Paula said: > the unstable version. This would mean that, in terms of solved bugs in the > *sofware* that could cause a security flaw, both woody and sid are exactly > equal. Is it that? in an ideal situation yes. sometimes even sid is updated before woody is. but there are package

Re: Security concerns on stable/unstable

2003-01-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 07:37:55PM -0500, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 15:20, nate wrote: > > official security updates are ONLY available for stable and potato(at the > > moment). unstable gets updates like normal, they include security updates > > but are not specifically a

Re: Security concerns on stable/unstable

2003-01-11 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 07:37:55PM -0500, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > So what you mean is that if someone finds a security flaw on any > package, the security team of Debian is informed and consequently the > maintainer of that package is informed. Then the maintainer updates the > package at woo

Re: Security concerns on stable/unstable

2003-01-11 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 15:20, nate wrote: > official security updates are ONLY available for stable and potato(at the > moment). unstable gets updates like normal, they include security updates > but are not specifically advertised as so. It's up to the user to manage the > security. So what you m

Security concerns on stable/unstable

2003-01-11 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Hi, I have a doubt concerning security issues on stable and unstable branchs of Debian. First question, are the security updates also applied to the unstable packages? If so, is it "secure" to have a 24x7 Debian box running unstable? The point is that I want it to be both a HTTP/NFS/NIS/DB server