Gentoo Archives: gentoo-security

From: Stefan Cornelius <stefan.cornelius@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] SearchSecurity.com: "Linux patch problems: Your distro may vary"
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 07:16:01
Message-Id: 5d7a20a0608080003n617e31f7u558790e74d9feeaf@mail.gmail.com
1 If you see a GLSA somewhere else than from Gentoo first, then you are doing
2 something wrong :)
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4 Whatever I say here, this probobly being interpreted like crying, so I will
5 keep it to a minimum: But I doubt that this study is anywhere close to
6 representative. (For example, we never issued a GLSA for libmms, because we
7 never had to according to our policy since it was unstable. So, did we get 0
8 points for this?). And please note that security cant do a shit about
9 missing maintainers and so on. In fact, security is only a relatively small
10 member of the whole security related chain, altough this may be surprising
11 at first.
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13 All I can say is, that I hope that they will continue the "study", because
14 we will kick ass next time. We are already #2 of the community only distris
15 (= no commercial background).
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17 Kind regards,
18
19 Stefan

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