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
