Subject: Re: package updates
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/13/2001 10:00:50
	Generally packages should track the latest stable version.
	If you have updates for any package, always send them in :)

-- 
		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --


On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Steve Bellovin wrote:

> Is there any "official" NetBSD policy on how current packages should
> be?  Two packages I use (airportbasestationconfig and exmh) are
> quite out of date, and the latter has had a security advisory against
> it since January.  (I haven't worried about the latter, since it's only
> a local exploit, and for the former, I need the 128-bit version anyway.)
>
> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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