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Ben de Groot wrote: |
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> I am of the opinion it is irresponsible to leave vulnerable versions of Qt with |
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> known security bugs any longer in the tree. The Qt team therefore requests |
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> that arches that have not done so already move quickly on stabilizing Qt |
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> 4.5.3, see bug 290922 and 283810. |
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> We plan on REMOVING or at the very least HARDMASKING pending removal |
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> all <=4.5.2 ebuilds by the end of this week. This means that arches that have |
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> not stabilized 4.5.3 would loose their stable Qt4 version. |
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It is also irresponsible to punish users by breaking the tree when |
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arches can't keep up. |
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> Please let us know if there is any way in which we can assist arches. We |
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> are aware that some arches are down to one active person. But if there is |
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> no other way, maybe the status of such arches should be reconsidered. |
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> We especially request ppc64 to be marked as an experimental arch, as it |
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> is the worst one lagging in stabilization. See bug 281821 for a poignant |
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> example, a 3 months open security bug. |
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I'm sorry that we're having a hard time keeping up, but ppc64 has been |
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primarily supported by ranger in the recent past, with help from time to |
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time by other devs. He's been busy with real life work and I was unaware |
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that security bugs were slipping. So, sorry you're annoyed. :p |
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Perhaps pinging on our IRC channel, or a direct email to the ppc64@ |
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alias might have helped to bring this to our attention sooner, |
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personally I know that I sometimes gloss over bugzilla emails due to the |
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high volume of requests the arch team gets (doubled since I also work on |
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the 32 bit port). |
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I would be extremely disappointed to see ppc/ppc64 be marked as |
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experimental. As of now, Gentoo is one of the few distributions that |
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maintains support for ppc/ppc64 (Fedora recently dropped ppc/ppc64 from |
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it's primary status, I think it's just us and debian left out of the |
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major distributions) and I'd be sorry to see that go. |
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Again, sorry for the delay, QT-4.5.3 has been marked ppc64 stable and |
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should be good to go after bug #261632 is fixed. |
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-Joe |
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