Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 08:24:45PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > > Hmm, from the version numbers (2.2.3a-6 to 2.2.3a-12) and changelog > > entries since the version in stable it looks as if this upgrade does a > > little more than just fix the security problem. Whatever happened to > > just backporting the security fix? > > The samba maintainers had already prepared an update for stable > which contained backported fixes for important bugs. These fixes > were appropriate for the next point release, so rather than build a > security update based on 2.2.3a-6 and then a new stable upload based > on 2.2.3a-9, the security update was based on 2.2.3a-9 with its > fixes. You did not get any changes which were not already destined > for stable.
It'd be nice if the DSA could say so much. BTW, thanks for all the good work getting security.debian.org back up so fast. -- Olaf Meeuwissen EPSON KOWA Corporation, ECS GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2
