Re: [gentoo-dev] ProFTPD

[Ned Ludd]

Stewart,
While your in there cleaning house could you please
change the export LDFLAGS="-lresolv" to append-ldflags -lresolv

On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 03:42, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 23:40, Stewart Honsberger wrote:
> > Hello all;
> >
> > I've just marked ProFTPD 1.2.9 stable which fixes things like memory
> > leaks, segfaults, config file shennanigans and a security bug or two
> > (update!!! :) ) and barring any problems plan on removing the stagnant
> > ebuilds and their spaghettiwork of patches from the tree (starting with
> > the 1.2.9 release candidates).
> >
> > A couple of questions before I do so;
> >
> > How many people are still using 1.2.5? Should that ebuild remain, or
> > should I remove all but 1.2.7-9?

Please flush them all.

>
> Wasn't there a security issue for ProFTPd anyway?  I thought I saw one
> arrive to security@gentoo recently on the bug tracker.  Anyway, if
> whatever version was in there for a month with no bug reports against
> it, move it to stable and clean out the old ones.

proftpd-1.2.9_rc2 was the stable version that fixes the known security
problems it was marked stable back in Oct I think.

If new security problems have surfaced then security@g.o should be made
aware.

-- 
Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
Gentoo Linux Developer