Firefox 1.03?

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Sam Tygier Wrote: 
> the debian way is to packport the fixes to the old version

> 

> ie

> if ubuntu hoary ships with firefox 1.0.2

> and there is a security fix release 1.0.3 from mozilla

> then ubnutu will use the changes to put the fixes into 1.0.2 and
> release this as 1.0.2-ubuntu1

> 

> this is often done quicker than the new version.

> 

> it can be confusing when mozilla say '1.0.3 fixes problems in 1.0.2',
> mostly you can trust the ubuntu/debian people to fix bugs like this.

> 



That's good and well, but this didn't happen to Warty, the 0.9.3 in
there is still vulnerable to many vulnerabilities.



Additionally, I think that tracking the major.minor version of a
program is a good idea, but for security or serious bugfixes, the patch
versions can be included also.


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