"libsasl2": is there an announce list for "Main"

[john -3]

Hi all,

Is there an announce list for the updates to the "Main" repository or
are packages just added there and end-users find out when they do
apt-get update? For example I see that there's an update to "libsasl2"
and "libsasl2-2". I can't find any information about the nature of the
update. Perhaps if I knew how to ask apt it would tell me? Anyway I
hate to apply patches that I don't have an idea about. So hopefully
someone can enlighten me.

Thanks!


John


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[Lance Lassetter-2]

apt-listchanges is probably what you want.

On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 08:36 -0700, john wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is there an announce list for the updates to the "Main" repository or
> are packages just added there and end-users find out when they do
> apt-get update? For example I see that there's an update to "libsasl2"
> and "libsasl2-2". I can't find any information about the nature of the
> update. Perhaps if I knew how to ask apt it would tell me? Anyway I
> hate to apply patches that I don't have an idea about. So hopefully
> someone can enlighten me.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> John
>
>

[Michael Gilbert]

On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 08:36:35 -0700, john wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there an announce list for the updates to the "Main" repository or
> are packages just added there and end-users find out when they do
> apt-get update? For example I see that there's an update to "libsasl2"
> and "libsasl2-2". I can't find any information about the nature of the
> update. Perhaps if I knew how to ask apt it would tell me? Anyway I
> hate to apply patches that I don't have an idea about. So hopefully
> someone can enlighten me.

This is a security update.  See DSA-1807 [1].

[1] http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1807


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[Sebastian Günther-4]

* john (lists.john@...) [08.06.09 17:37]:

> Hi all,
>
> Is there an announce list for the updates to the "Main" repository or
> are packages just added there and end-users find out when they do
> apt-get update? For example I see that there's an update to "libsasl2"
> and "libsasl2-2". I can't find any information about the nature of the
> update. Perhaps if I knew how to ask apt it would tell me? Anyway I
> hate to apply patches that I don't have an idea about. So hopefully
> someone can enlighten me.
>

debian-security-announce.lists.debian.org

> Thanks!
>
>
> John
>
>

HTH
Sebastian

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