debian versions (was: package installation problem)

[Thomas Stivers]

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On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:34:49 PM -0500, ace wrote:
> OK, one more question.  :)
> 
> If a security fix comes out for a package...say Mutt or something...Will
> it be available for stable users to apply without having to take it from
> an unstable or testing branch or does stable just remain the same until
> testing becomes stable?

There is an apt repository for security fixes which stable users can add
to their /etc/apt/sources.list. Every couple months a new revision of
stable comes out wich puts all the security fixes that have been made on
a new cd release. Security fixes are the only changes which happen to
stable until testing becomes the next stable.

- -- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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