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[Shayne O'Neill]

you clearly havent upgraded ssh then ;)

Generally you are right however. There have been a few (notably that ssh
one that wacked the behaviour of some authentication) that modify
behavior, but its rare.

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On Mon, 17 May 2004, Brad Campbell wrote:

> Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> > too late
> >
> > various (unix'es/VMS and windoze)->redhat->mandrake->gentoo (~2- yrs ago
> > now!)
> >
> > <duck&run> when are the rest of you moving from legacy distros's ?
> > </duck&run>
> >
>
> When Gentoo can guarantee that upgrading a package for a security patch is not going to alter its
> behaviour in any way.
>
> Debian backports security patches to guarantee that when you upgrade that server 12,000km away
> remotely over a piece of wet string that your application will not change its behaviour in any way,
> shape or form.
> Gentoo tends to fix security holes by moving to the latest upstream package and thus not at all
> guaranteeing stable behaviour without having to reconfigure things.
>
> Different strokes for different folks I guess. Plus, when Debian says *stable* they jolly well mean it.
>
> NEXT!
>
> Brad
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