undefined | Better HN

0 pointsisaacremuant2y ago0 comments

That's absolutely terrible and not clear at all.

I've been tempted to go back to Arch and I think this can be a good motivator.

0 comments

That is also absolutely unchanged compared to "since forever". Canonical supports "main", while "universe" and "multiverse" offer best-effort community support (aka from debian). They now additionally offer a dedicated team for those repos.

Honest question, since the arch wiki seems surprisingly spotty on this: Which arch repos are covered by their security team? Just core? Or also extra? More than that? AUR surely not, right?

guappa2y ago

Not even "from debian". Sometimes they can't be bothered to copy debian packages that fix security issues if the package is in universe, and just leave it vulnerable for the entire duration of the LTS.

Happened to me.

svc02y ago

Just to be clear, on Arch ffmpeg is outdated (6.0 vs 6.1.) This means it has three security vulnerabilities.

viraptor2y ago

It's not the case for this example of ffmpeg (it's actually not patched), but make sure to check the actual changelog. Sometimes the version is kept, but the patches are backported, so a plain version comparison is not enough.

panarky2y ago

Debian's ffmpeg is at 6.1, no subscription nonsense required.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse