Gentoo Archives: gentoo-announce

From: Yury German <blueknight@g.o>
To: gentoo-announce@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-announce] Dropping support of sparc as a security supported architecture.
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 15:30:08
Message-Id: d91a678b-9931-def4-b309-4d1d32615571@gentoo.org
1 Hello,
2
3 After long discussion with the sparc team and other developers, the
4 Security Team has decided to drop SPARC as a security supported
5 architecture. This decision follows the council decision on 2016-12-11,
6 "The council defers to the security team, but is supportive of dropping
7 security support for sparc if it is unable to generally meet the
8 security team timelines."
9
10 The list of security supported architectures is maintained in the
11 [Security Vulnerability Treatment Policy]
12
13 The consequences of the removal of security supported architecture
14 include (i) GLSA will be released before a version of a package is
15 necessarily stable for the architecture (ii) architecture-specific
16 issues will not be investigated.
17
18 In addition to this announcement, glsa-check will be updated to present
19 necessary information for sparc users. As most security issues are
20 cross-architecture, glsa-check will continue to be operational for sparc
21 based on generic GLSAs for other architectures.
22
23 References:
24 [Security Vulnerability Treatment Policy]
25 https://www.gentoo.org/support/security/vulnerability-treatment-policy.html
26 ##
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29 ________________
30 Yury German (BlueKnight)
31 Gentoo Security Team Lead
32 Email: blueknight@g.o
33
34 OpenPGP keyblock reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
35 GPG Fingerprint: 8858 89D6 C0C4 75C4 D0DD FA00 EEAF ED89 024C 043

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