at bottom :- On 17/05/2017, Philip Hands <[email protected]> wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[email protected]> writes: >
<snipped> >> Actually, we might want to issue an statement to _Debian_ users >> reminding them the value and necessity of keeping their Debian systems >> up-to-date. Maybe point to our automated solutions that remind and/or >> apply security updates automatically. > > That's a good idea -- especially given that by default Jessie with Gnome > doesn't bother alerting people about new updates (#678340). > > A patch to fix that bug has been in the report for about 18-months, > without a comment, which is pretty depressing for a security critical > bug. Of course, it's only security critical because it effectively > leaves people running without security support, so I guess the urgency > is somehow not immediately obvious. Also, fixing it doesn't actually > help as much as one would hope, given that the affected people might > never install the fix. > > Cheers, Phil. > -- > |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. > |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ > |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY > Dear all, That's the same thing I am striving for. It would be good if we can warn our users to have updated software and also share with them some good security practises. Probably a wiki page on the wiki.debconf.org is better as it can be edited and updated by one and all rather than being needed to be reviewed for posting on site (debian.org) . In this regard, maybe a pad somewhere and a name which people think should be good enough we could start pooling all the advices given above . -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8
