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From: Renat Lumpau <rl03@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:56:26
Message-Id: 20060228164038.GA11818@toucan.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role by Patrick Lauer
1 On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:11:58PM +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote:
2 > Ok, sorry for being dumb :-)
3 > What exactly is the issue there? I don't see the issue in setting SLOT
4 > depending on ... uhm ... some variable. Looks kinda logical at first
5 > glance, but I'm not aware of the issues it causes.
6
7 One issue here is that security revbumps are no longer effective in that the
8 vulnerable version remains installed and must be unmerged manually by the
9 sysadmin. I started a discussion about this very same issue yesterday on
10 -web-user and we hope to resolve it shortly.
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