Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

From: Jon Dowland (lists_at_alcopop.org)
Date: 11/13/05

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    On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 02:42:25AM -0700, Scott wrote:
    > Robert Brockway wrote:
    > > It's normal for the Debian security team to backport changes into
    > > the existing code base in Debian. Thus I expect the Firefox 1.04 to
    > > be the vanilla source 1.04 plus backported security fixes. This is
    > > a _good_ thing as it means less changes on an update. This is one
    > > of the strengths of the Debian approach.
    >
    > Perhaps, but it's also confusing to anyone coming to Debian from
    > another Linux distro.

    I don't see why: the ship the version they state they do, and fix
    security problems as they arise. Very logical to me. If people really
    expect either security problems to sit unfixed, then I think they have
    been set a pretty low standard by whatever other distro they've come
    via.

    > Let's just hope they *properly* update the user agent string..

    I don't think the UA should be used to describe security patch levels. 

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