keeping the packages up to date

[debian]

On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 12:19 -0400, Michael P. Varre wrote:
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> I recently started using Ubuntu server LTS for some production web
> servers due to the fact that it is SO easy to run.  However, usually I
> guess you get what you pay for.  I’ve noticed that many major packages
> for things such as Apache2 and PHP5 don’t really stay up to date too
> much. For instance the newest package available using aptitude is
> 2.0.55, yet the newest available on apache.org is 2.0.63. 
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> Now, I understand the package maintainers mostly keep these up to date
> out of the kindness of their heart and in their spare time, and really
> we’d all be nowhere without them.  However, do many have an issue
> running these systems that are so out of date due to security
> concerns?
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> Are many admins out there really running Ubuntu LTS in production
> environments that face the internet?
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> Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this issue as two of my
> boxes were recently compromised and frankly I don’t know if it was my
> system or the application running on it, or a combination of the two
> and I’m not sure what I should plan on doing in the future
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> Thanks!
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possibility: Maybe they just dont have enough spare time to compile it
into ubuntu and create the *.deb package? it probably doesnt take that
long to do..but then i dont maintain any packages yet

--cj