[Secure-testing-team] DTSA advisory format

martin f krafft madduck at debian.org
Sun Aug 28 17:16:36 UTC 2005


also sprach Anthony DeRobertis <anthony at derobert.net> [2005.08.28.1914 +0200]:
> > - 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).

apt-get install -t testing
would install all required packages from testing too, including new
dependencies.

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