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From: Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Security stabilisations
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:49:53
Message-Id: 20100717165126.49a7f19f@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Security stabilisations by Thilo Bangert
1 Hi,
2
3 Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o>:
4 > > please avoid having stabilisation requests
5 > > like http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327877, blocking a
6 > > security bug. That way, architecture teams may not see the severity
7 > > directly and it slips, leaving users with vulnerable versions longer
8 > > than needed. Thank you.
9 >
10 > perhaps it's a good idea to tell people what you expect of them
11 > instead. i presume just removing the blocker will not satisfy you.
12
13 Do stabilisations on the security bug so arch team members can skim
14 through their stabilisation list by just looking for security@g.o to
15 find the vulnerable packages.
16
17 V-Li
18
19 --
20 Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
21 <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode
22
23 <URL:http://www.faulhammer.org/>

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Security stabilisations "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>