Keeping Debian secure

Debian uses a strong policy for packages. A stable release is considered very stable. Only security updates will make it into it.

However it takes quite a while until a new stable subrelease is prepared. Therefore the host security.debian.org has been set up as interim solution.

In order to keep your system stable all you need is to direct apt to that host. Here are two configuration lines for /etc/apt/sources.list, depending on your use of stable or unstable.

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates
deb http://security.debian.org/ unstable updates

© Joey, 18 Aug '99