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	Interesting debian-devel thread from 2003 on merits of backporting security fixes

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/478e2484-8401-4a15-8a3f-4ed86e24b313/1976E0EB-6DF0-4C70-B7B4-95F9D5284384/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/08/msg01338.html" href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/08/msg01338.html" style="font-size: 11px;">lists.debian.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/08/msg01338.html"><H1>Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/08/msg01338.html">&gt; - Security advisories and the associated packages should fix security
&gt;   vulnerabilities and nothing else.
Have you perhaps seen
<A href="http://lwn.net/Articles/44117/" rel="nofollow">http://lwn.net/Articles/44117/</A>
?  I think it's a fairly convincing critique of this policy.  I'm
sure there are many security holes in woody that are fixed in the
latest stable upstream release.[1]  Debian's policy assures that all
well-publicized bugs get patched, but that doesn't mean that others
don't slip through the cracks.  A capable cracker targeting a Debian
stable system has a simple algorithm: browse upstream changelogs for
closed holes that weren't publicized.
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