Hello: I'm new to Debian but really like the idea of the distribution and am trying hard to make things work. One thing I find especially troublesome is that the wuftpd that can be installed to slink is a version with a DOS vulnerability that has been published for almost a year. I found a current wuftpd deb and installed, but had to install numerous dependant packages. When all was done, I now had the 'potato' version.
All I really need is an ftp server (I like wu for various reasons) on a stable system. Why is it that simply upgrading the ftpd would throw my setup into an 'unstable' version? Is this likely to be a problem whenever I install recently released software? Is Slink a bit behind when it comes to c libraries, etc? My impression is that many people use potato and it's 'plenty stable' but I've read a few notes on the list regarding weird anomalies with potato. I don't really want to be told to use potato because it's okay and then suffer any odd consequences (as I'm running a server that I expect to be operational all the time). TIA for any advice, comments, etc. Mike