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From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:13:23
Message-Id: 200610301509.55716.carlo@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees by Ferris McCormick
1 On Monday 30 October 2006 14:23, Ferris McCormick wrote:
2 > I might be mistaken, but I believe sparc responds pretty quickly to
3 > security bugs, either by taking the requested action or by explaining
4 > why the requested action is impossible (i.e., build problems).
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6 Yes, the Sparc team is rather quick - even among security-wise supported
7 architectures. None of the archs cc'ed to the bug in question is
8 security-wise supported. We communicate this is our vulnerability policy¹
9 page - a bit too hidden for my taste.
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12 Carsten
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15 [1] http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/vulnerability-policy.xml