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From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please stop useless removals
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:48:14
Message-Id: kegh1q$j2d$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please stop useless removals by "Wulf C. Krueger"
1 On 2/02/2013 00:36, Wulf C. Krueger wrote:
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5 > On 01.02.2013 14:26, Rich Freeman wrote:
6 >> As long as it builds on 80%+ of systems and has no serious issues
7 >> (security in particular) there is no reason to remove a package.
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9 > And how will you get to know about current or future security issues if
10 > nobody (in Gentoo) cares about the package?
11 The security team routinely monitors various information sources to
12 ensure that issues are tracked regardless of maintainer.
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14 >> Remove things when they cause problems, not before.
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16 > You mean, not before your users' systems have been compromised and they
17 > complain loudly about it?
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19 > Best regards, Wulf
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