[Gllug] Recommended distro

[Richard Turner]

On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 19:50 +0000, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Security patches are proactively applied to "stable" and reactively 
> applied to "unstable".  I shall try to explain.
> 
> You have application FooServer which is released in stable at version 1.1
> 
> FooServer is developed further to 1.1, 1.2 and eventually 1.8, plenty of 
> features added in the meantime.
> 
> A security problem is found in FooServer 1.8 that affects all prior 
> versions including FooServer 1.1 and so FooServer 1.9 is released.
> 
> Debian release a patched version of FooServer 1.1 that fixes said exploit.
> 
> The important point here is that _they do not upgrade_. The hole is 
> fixed for FooServer 1.1 but none of the additional features of FooServer 
> 1.8 are integrated.
> 
> The opposite for unstable is true.  Because FooServer 1.9 fixes the 
> security problem, FooServer 1.9 is then pushed into unstable (or at the 
> very least a patched version of FooServer 1.8)
> 
> The is simplistic and slightly inaccurate but I hope it gets the point 
> across. Right now we're looking to stablise "testing" to release as the 
> new "stable", so much fixing and little "upgrading" is taking place.
> 

Thanks, that's a nice simple explanation of how the three versions work
and clarifies things for me :)

Cheers,

Richard.
-- 
"Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning..."

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