Debian contemplates patch management

Courtesy LWN.net  Tue, 05/20/2008 - 05:09

Developers in the Debian project had a busy week cleaning up after the openssl vulnerability was disclosed. Once that was taken care of, they moved on to process-related issues.

Clearly, some shortcomings in how Debian handles patches to the programs it ships have been revealed; now the project would like to face those problems and make things work better in the future.

The resulting discussion shows Debian at its introspective best, and may well have results that other distributors will...


 

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