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150107 William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 06:49:56AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> 150106 William Hubbs wrote: |
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>>> Many packages have been masked in the tree for months - years |
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>>> with no signs of fixes. I am particularly concerned |
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>>> about packages with known security vulnerabilities |
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>>> staying in the main tree masked. If people want to keep those packages, |
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>>> I don't want to stop them, but packages like this should be in an overlay, |
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>>> not the main tree. |
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>> > # Tavis Ormandy <taviso@g.o> (21 Mar 2006) |
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>> > # masked pending unresolved security issues #125902 |
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>> > games-roguelike/nethack |
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>> This one is perfectly safe on a single-user system : please leave it there. |
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> I'm not opposed to it staying in the tree under one of these conditions: |
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> 1) fix it and remove the mask or |
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I'm a user, not a dev or a programmer. |
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> 2) remove the mask and add ewarns to the ebuild |
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That looks more reasonable & something a dev could easily do. |
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