[Secure-testing-team] DTSA advisory format

Anthony DeRobertis anthony at derobert.net
Sun Aug 28 17:14:38 UTC 2005


Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:

> - The install recommendation uses apt-get install foo. So we'd need to
>   specify a list of all binary names here to properly install the update.
>   Shouldn't we just recommend dist-upgrade instead? (If people use the
>   testing security apt repo they don't have to cherry pick fixes)

apt-get dist-upgrade might very well pull in a lot of stuff which isn't
related to the update (considering testing changes nightly, this is
fairly likely).





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