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On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 01:08:21PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 01:29:15PM -0500, Mike Pagano wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 11:11:32AM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 11:21:56AM -0500, Mike Pagano wrote: |
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> > > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:47:10PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > > > > All, |
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> > William, |
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> > At what point do we not care about users who have not upgraded and will |
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> > miss this security message? |
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> I would say that's more up to you as the maintainer, but put something |
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> to the affect in the mask comment. |
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> # This mask will be removed <whenever> |
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> William |
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Fair enough. This question is to anyone that supports users and works on |
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bugs. Especially the portage devs. At what point do you say to a user |
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that their system is so old that they really need to upgrade? |
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2 years, 1 year, < 1 year? Maybe that's a good thing to state in documentation. |
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"For a fully supported and "reasonably secure as possible" Gentoo system, the |
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distribution expects users to update at least X times a year. Notice of |
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insecure or potentially harmful packages is not guaranteed one year after |
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official notification." |
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Mike |
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Mike Pagano |
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Gentoo Developer - Kernel Project |
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Gentoo Sources - Lead |
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E-Mail : mpagano@g.o |
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GnuPG FP : EEE2 601D 0763 B60F 848C 9E14 3C33 C650 B576 E4E3 |
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Public Key : http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0xB576E4E3&op=index |
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