Re: security updates for testing distibution

2002-04-08 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:25:54PM +0200, Christophe Courtois wrote: > > Anyhow, woody will be released Real Soon Now(tm), and then the > > security policy will be the same as it was for potato. > > Does it mean too that I must update from potato rather quickly after > Woody's release if I want

Re: security updates for testing distibution

2002-04-07 Thread Christophe Courtois
> Anyhow, woody will be released Real Soon Now(tm), and then the > security policy will be the same as it was for potato. Does it mean too that I must update from potato rather quickly after Woody's release if I want all security releases ? Is the maintenance of potato totally stopped after 1st

Re: security updates for testing distibution

2002-04-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 09:40:41AM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > On Apr 04 at 18:08, John Hasler spoke: > > > Andrew writes: > > > Don't security updates also go to unstable? > > > > No. Security updates are almost always done by backporting the fix to the > > version of the package that is i

Re: security updates for testing distibution

2002-04-05 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 07:28:54AM -0800, Andrew Agno wrote: > Hanspeter Roth writes: > > But what about the testing distribution? Does it also get `implicit' > > security fixes by new versions? > > Or is it safer to stick with stable? > > Well, it follows the usual rules, so eventually things

Re: security updates for testing distibution

2002-04-05 Thread Andrew Agno
Hanspeter Roth writes: > But what about the testing distribution? Does it also get `implicit' > security fixes by new versions? > Or is it safer to stick with stable? Well, it follows the usual rules, so eventually things will filter down. In the meantime, I believe you have to grab things fro

Re: security updates for testing distibution

2002-04-05 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin quoting what Anthony DeRobertis said on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:31:35AM -0500: > > Just change the 'testing' to 'woody' in your sources, then you > will stay with woody. Which will be stable soon. But after that > happens, change it back to "stable" Just to head off the next question:

Re: security updates for testing distibution

2002-04-05 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Apr 05 at 04:31, Anthony DeRobertis spoke: > Just change the 'testing' to 'woody' in your sources, then you > will stay with woody. Which will be stable soon. But after that > happens, change it back to "stable" > > [ And, btw, getting security fixes into testing is now very important, >

Re: security updates for testing distibution

2002-04-05 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Can one switch back to stable without reinstalling the whole? Probably not. But you don't want to, woody will be soon! Just keep saying it, woody will be soon... woody will be soon... eventually, we'll convince ourselves that it is true ;-) Seriously --- we now have under 100 RC bugs in test

Re: security updates for testing distibution

2002-04-05 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Apr 04 at 18:08, John Hasler spoke: > Andrew writes: > > Don't security updates also go to unstable? > > No. Security updates are almost always done by backporting the fix to the > version of the package that is in stable. The version in unstable is > almost always a more recent one. If i

Re: security updates for testing distibution

2002-04-04 Thread Andrew Agno
John Hasler writes: > Andrew writes: > > Don't security updates also go to unstable? > No. Security updates are almost always done by backporting the fix to the > version of the package that is in stable. The version in unstable is > almost always a more recent one. If it is vulnerable it w

Re: security updates for testing distibution

2002-04-04 Thread John Hasler
Andrew writes: > Don't security updates also go to unstable? No. Security updates are almost always done by backporting the fix to the version of the package that is in stable. The version in unstable is almost always a more recent one. If it is vulnerable it will be fixed when the maintainer u

Re: security updates for testing distibution

2002-04-04 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Hanspeter Roth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Apr 04 at 22:57, Hans Ekbrand spoke: > > > On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:53:52PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > > Can one get security updates for the testing distribution? > > > > No. There is no such thing. > > Can one switch back to sta

Re: security updates for testing distibution

2002-04-04 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Apr 04 at 22:57, Hans Ekbrand spoke: > On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:53:52PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > Can one get security updates for the testing distribution? > > No. There is no such thing. Can one switch back to stable without reinstalling the whole? -Hanspeter -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: security updates for testing distibution

2002-04-04 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:53:52PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > Can one get security updates for the testing distribution? No. There is no such thing. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux emac140 2.4.17 #1 sön feb 10 20:21:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown Hans Ekbrand pgp0sfSbtZ3Nj.pgp Descri

security updates for testing distibution

2002-04-04 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Can one get security updates for the testing distribution? I have deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free in sources.list. Or sould it be deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib