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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Security stabilisations
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:01:53
Message-Id: 4C41E219.9070408@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Security stabilisations by Christian Faulhammer
1 On 07/17/2010 05:51 PM, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o>:
5 >>> please avoid having stabilisation requests
6 >>> like http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327877, blocking a
7 >>> security bug. That way, architecture teams may not see the severity
8 >>> directly and it slips, leaving users with vulnerable versions longer
9 >>> than needed. Thank you.
10 >>
11 >> perhaps it's a good idea to tell people what you expect of them
12 >> instead. i presume just removing the blocker will not satisfy you.
13 >
14 > Do stabilisations on the security bug so arch team members can skim
15 > through their stabilisation list by just looking for security@g.o to
16 > find the vulnerable packages.
17 >
18 > V-Li
19 >
20
21 If you want things to happen this way then it should be at least
22 documented in the devmanual.
23
24 Regards,
25 Petter

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