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From: Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 08:17:41
Message-Id: 20130821101732.774adffb@TOMWIJ-GENTOO
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies by Sergey Popov
1 On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:57:22 +0400
2 Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > 20.08.2013 23:42, Tom Wijsman пишет:
5 > > On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:29:09 -0400
6 > > Wyatt Epp <wyatt.epp@×××××.com> wrote:
7 > >> What manner of bitrot?
8 > >
9 > > They might ...
10 > >
11 > > 2. ... contain security bugs that later versions have fixed.
12 >
13 > There should be security bug on our bugzilla with quick stabilization
14 > on it and(probably) GLSA.
15
16 Not all security bugs are visible; the older a piece of software, the
17 higher the chance that some people know about one or another exploit
18 that the rest of the world does not know about.
19
20 --
21 With kind regards,
22
23 Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
24 Gentoo Developer
25
26 E-mail address : TomWij@g.o
27 GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D
28 GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o>