On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Jason Rennie generated:
>> Firstly, slink is OLD. There is no question that potato versions of the
>> same software not only contain the security updates that were in slink,
>> but because potato is *newer*, other security holes will undoubtedly be
>> closed. I bet the authors of the year+ old software in slink aren't
>
>Why do you equate newer will less security holes ?
I don't. I equate 'actively-maintained' with 'a lower probability of
security holes'.
Given a program that is being actively developed (read: security holes are
being found and patched), you can backport the security patches to the old
code, but this can be more of a hassle (bugs, may open more holes). To fix
a hole can require a bit of work sometimes. In many cases it is easier to
upgrade to the newer version to fix a hole than it is to try to patch the
old version.
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