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Debian drops ball on security updates Published: June 8, 2005, 10:38 AM PDT By Renai LeMay, CNET News.com A configuration mistake in the new Debian Linux distribution has forced a fix less than 24 hours after the software was released. "New installations (of Debian 3.1 from CD and DVD) will not get security updates by default," Debian developer Colin Watson wrote in an e-mail warning. Installations from floppy disks or network servers were not affected. Watson apologized and asked vendors to delay burning CDs or DVDs of Debian 3.1, saying that an update would be available shortly. However, Steve Langasek--another member of the release team--said on his blog that it would probably be a day or two before the updated CDs and DVDs were available everywhere. "Whoops," Langasek wrote. "Don't go pressing those 10,000 copies of (3.1) just yet." The good news for those who have already installed the operating system is that fixing the problem is a simple matter of replacing an entry in a configuration file. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
