Hello Debian Web Maintainers,
I've been using Debian for a few years now, and only
today after a careful search of the Securing Debian
Manual, have I confirmed what I thought was the case
about security updates in Debian.
The ff is verbatim from the security page:
Keeping your Debian system secure
In order to receive the latest Debian security advisories,
subscribe to the debian-security-announce mailing list.
You can use apt to easily get the latest security updates.
This requires a line such as
deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main contrib non-free
in your /etc/apt/sources.list file.
I think it would be nice if you "let the other shoe fall" and added
a bit more, so that it would now read something like:
Keeping your Debian system secure
In order to receive the latest Debian security advisories,
subscribe to the debian-security-announce mailing list.
You can use apt to easily get the latest security updates.
This requires a line such as
deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main contrib non-free
in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Then executing
apt-get update
will fetch and install the security updates on your system. See the
Securing Debian manual (section 4.8) for more details.
Thank you for your attention,
David Fu
