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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Security/QA Spring Cleaning
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 05:31:03
Message-Id: 20060522052512.GA6910@curie-int.vc.shawcable.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Security/QA Spring Cleaning by Ned Ludd
1 On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:02:22PM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote:
2 > ferringb took the time to write a parser and setup a cronjob
3 > (every 4 hours at the half hour) to parse over our GLSA's and see what
4 > pkgs remain in the tree and have nothing but newer versions stable. I
5 [snip]
6
7 Just because old versions exist, doesn't strictly mean that they are
8 safe to remove - some of them may be in the tree because other packages
9 block the newer versions.
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12 Robin Hugh Johnson
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