no 4.2-stable package updates??

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From: Jonathan Thornburg
Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 7:50 am

As a matter of policy, are -stable packages updated for security fixes?

I know that used to be the case, but as of today (40 days after 4.2 was
released), there are *no* 4.2-stable package updates shown at
http://www.openbsd.org/pkg-stable.html.  In contrast, there are 183
4.1-stable updates shown (accumulated over the roughly 7 months from
4.1-release to now), and 249 4.0-stable updates shown (presumably
accumulated over the year from 4.0-release to the end of 4.0-stable
updates when 4.2 was released), and my memory of past releases (going
back some years) is of a similar steady trickle of -stable package
updates (often described as security fixes).

So, am I just "lucky" that no bugs-important-enough-for-stable-updates
have been found in any 4.2 packages yet?  Is there somewere other than
http://www.openbsd.org/pkg-stable.html that I should be watching if I
want to keep -stable packages up to date with security fixes?

ciao,

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-- Jonathan Thornburg (remove -animal to reply) <J.Thornburg@soton.ac-zebra.uk>
   School of Mathematics, U of Southampton, England
   "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the
    powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."
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no 4.2-stable package updates??, Jonathan Thornburg, (Tue Dec 11, 7:50 am)
Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??, Antoine Jacoutot, (Tue Dec 11, 8:15 am)
Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??, Martin Schröder, (Tue Dec 11, 8:40 am)
Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??, Antoine Jacoutot, (Tue Dec 11, 9:09 am)
Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??, Joe, (Tue Dec 11, 11:07 pm)
Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??, Antoine Jacoutot, (Wed Dec 12, 12:35 am)
Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??, ico, (Wed Dec 12, 8:53 am)
Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??, Antoine Jacoutot, (Wed Dec 12, 9:06 am)
Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??, jere, (Wed Dec 12, 9:25 am)
Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??, Brian A. Seklecki, (Wed Dec 12, 9:26 am)
Re: : no 4.2-stable package updates??, Raimo Niskanen, (Wed Dec 12, 10:01 am)
Re: : no 4.2-stable package updates?? , Theo de Raadt, (Wed Dec 12, 10:25 am)
Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??, Marc Balmer, (Wed Dec 12, 10:35 am)
Re: : no 4.2-stable package updates??, Marc Balmer, (Wed Dec 12, 10:36 am)
Re: : no 4.2-stable package updates??, knitti, (Wed Dec 12, 11:41 am)
Re: : no 4.2-stable package updates??, Darren Spruell, (Wed Dec 12, 12:45 pm)
Re: : no 4.2-stable package updates??, knitti, (Wed Dec 12, 1:11 pm)
Re: : no 4.2-stable package updates??, Darren Spruell, (Wed Dec 12, 1:29 pm)
Re: : no 4.2-stable package updates??, Steven Surdock, (Wed Dec 12, 1:39 pm)
Re: : no 4.2-stable package updates??, STeve Andre', (Wed Dec 12, 1:46 pm)
Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??, Matthias Kilian, (Wed Dec 12, 3:21 pm)
Re: : no 4.2-stable package updates??, Janne Johansson, (Thu Dec 13, 2:28 am)
Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??, ttw+bsd, (Thu Dec 13, 2:41 am)
Re: : no 4.2-stable package updates??, Robert Nagy, (Thu Dec 13, 3:10 am)
Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??, jere, (Thu Dec 13, 8:18 am)
Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??, Brian A. Seklecki, (Thu Dec 13, 3:29 pm)
Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??, Toni Mueller, (Fri May 2, 12:41 am)