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On 2020-04-07 10:48, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> We could add a README.gentoo file with our caveats. It won't be perfect, |
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> but maybe better than nothing. (And certainly better than displaying a |
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> warning on every upgrade, which will eventually annoy people [1].) |
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I am strictly against something like this. |
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We have a lot of packages with *confirmed* *serious* problems. Zoom is |
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not special to warrant a special treatment in any way. |
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More important: Until today, not one single vulnerability discussed in |
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public recently got confirmed for the Linux version. |
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Sure, that could have banal reasons like "No one audited the Linux |
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version yet". But in security you don't issue warnings if you aren't |
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sure. Because if you make false statements people will no longer trust |
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you. But trust is everything. |
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Regards, |
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Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer |
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