new updates, no recent DSAs.... Hmmmm

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Jim Popovitch schrieb am Thursday, den 27. December 2007:

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> Did I miss something? Why now, why no DSAs? (apt-get update/upgrade
> didn't indicate any packages last weekend, and sources.list hasn't
> changed). The notification of new packages was triggered 23:15 EST.
Yes
http://www.us.debian.org/News/2007/20071227

Alex

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new updates, no recent DSAs.... Hmmmm

Submitted by Russ Allbery on Thu, 2007-12-27 19:00.

Jim Popovitch writes:

> Actually I didn't miss that, or rather I did get that email today....
> but in the past I seem to recall the process was individual DSAs and
> releases, followed by a bundled new release rollup. Perhaps I am wrong.

Stable updates always include other things besides DSAs. Security updates
are usually the majority of the release, but there are always other, more
minor things that get fixed.

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