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AstroBenlast Saturday at 8:53 PM1 replyview on HN

Debian stable is just that - unchanging between major Debian versions. They do however push security updates when necessary, so you're not missing out on those


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hsbauauvhabzblast Sunday at 1:38 AM

Any chance you know how they manage that? Surely not every package in the repos is supported for the entire 2 year cycle, so if a vuln comes out after a major refactor, it’s surely not easy to backport the patch.

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