On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:18:00AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > this same empirical evidence has also proved that 'stable' is LESS > > > stable and reliable and secure than 'unstable'. the few debian boxes > > > which i know of that have been compromised were cracked BECAUSE they > > > were still running stable and had older versions of various programs > > > which had known security holes. > > > > Uh, which were the packages in question? Did you report it at the > > time? > > no need, the holes were already well known - and fixed in unstable.
Security fixes have to be (and are) fixed in stable, too! -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name