Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> > Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (that's me!) writes:
> > 
> > > Dear .debs,
> > > 
> > > I recently wanted to apply security updates to a machine I'd installed
> > > from woody pre6 CDs, hardened and upgraded to woody proper.  [...]
> > > 
> > > Before applying the upgrades I checked whether there was a DSA for the
> > > packages that were going to be upgraded.  Surprise, there were several
> > > that did not (seem to) have a corresponding DSA.
> > > 
> > > Question: Is that normal and OK?
> 
> Yes.  During the deep freeze of woody the security infrastructure was
> implemented.  Security updates were added to woody before it was released
> without issuing a DSA for each and every package.

As mentioned in another mail to the debian-security list, this is true
for the fetchmail-ssl package, but *not* for the kdenetwork packages.
The security upgrades are not the packages that were in woody when it
got released.

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