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On Thursday 03 August 2006 04:56, Brian Harring wrote: |
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> Besides... frankly it's kind of BS to push the vuln angle onto sunrise |
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> when gentoo can't even clean out years old vulnerable packages from |
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> gentoo-x86 (that doesn't absolve sunrise from having to watch it, nor |
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> a potshot at the understaffed security team, merely that double |
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> standards suck). |
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Just to clarify: AFAIR it has never been policy to remove vulnerable ebuilds. |
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The Security Team leaves that up to the maintainers. For some issues it does |
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make sense to keep vulnerable ebuilds in the tree (ie. latest Apache (GLSA |
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200608-01, when not using mod_rewrite). |
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Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (Jaervosz) |
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Operational Manager |
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Gentoo Linux Security Team |
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http://security.gentoo.org |
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