On Friday 10 October 2008, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:32:44 +0300
>
> Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> wrote:
> > > Of those, and those in overlays, and those that are going to be
> > > committed over the next few weeks, how many use src_prepare to
> > > apply security related patches?
> >
> > A round zero. Security patches are going stable soon after entering
> > portage tree, and EAPI=2 ebuilds can not go stable yet, as there is
> > no package manager supporting EAPI=2 that is going to be stable in
> > the next week or two (so maintainers make sure they don't use
> > EAPI=2 for security fix revisions).
>
> Oh really? So you're absolutely certain there aren't and won't soon
> be any EAPI 2 bumps of non-EAPI 2 versions that include security
> patches?

This would not affect stable users, as Mart pointed out. ~arch users 
should keep their systems up-to-date anyway (including their PM), and 
should be aware their security support is limited to providing updates.


Robert