Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 25th Oct 2003 05:13 UTC, submitted by Charles Krohn
Today, Ian Murdock described his recent work on APT to the Debian community. This announcement has far-ranging implications for the future of Fedora and Debian projects. Ars Technica has the details.
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"There are no Debian security updates for backports, as well as testing and unstable. If you want to maintain that famous Debian reliability and security, you have to stay with the Debian stable tree. That's a fact."
Yes, and wait for the next version of the software which has the bugfixes
"If you know about a site that offers instructions in how to upgrade Woody -- using official Debian sources -- to XFree86 4.3, KDE 3.1.4/Gnome 2.4/xfce 4/, Mozilla 1.5, and OpenOffice 1.1 please let us know."
s/stable/unstable/g in /etc/apt/sources.list and apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade
If you want XFree86 4.3, you have to get it from experimental.
I write this with Mozilla 1.5 from an XFree86 4.3 and Gnome 2.4 debian desktop and haven't ever had a single crash.