On Thursday 15 May 2008 20:55:04 Matt Domsch wrote:
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:34:55PM +0200, Elio Tondo wrote:
> Sorry if this is somewhat off-topic, but it's good to know that Fedora is
> immune from this bug... "This problem not only affects Debian, but also
> all its derivatives, such as Ubuntu."
>
>
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/13/1533212&from=rss
To be clear, we got lucky on this one. It would be entirely possible
for us to get caught in the opposite role on another vulnerability.
Vigilance!
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Surely our policy of following upstream closely would actually mean that it
would be more likely that _everyone_ gets caught, as Debian (hence Ubuntu)
patch things to a much greater extent?
In any case, this sort of affirms the idea that upstream quite often knows
best in cases like this.
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