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Alin Nastac wrote: |
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> Given the lack of interest manifested by mips team regarding |
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> net-proxy/squid and its security bumps, I propose to remove the last |
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> mips-stable version of this package - 2.5.10-r2 - marked as such by |
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> hardave on September the 4th 2005. |
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As a member of the MIPS team, I take offence to that comment. |
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While yes, security is of high importance, we do not have the sufficient |
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numbers to make it priority 1. It has to play second fiddle to other |
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issues such as kernel and toolchain-related issues. |
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Squid comes in significantly lower on the pecking order, due to |
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necessity, and so I don't watch it like a hawk to keyword each and every |
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version bump. |
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Also, it is worth noting that MIPS hardware is significantly much |
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slower, than x86 hardware... and so additional time must be allowed for. |
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We are often testing quite a few packages, many of which take a long |
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time to compile. (X for instance is an overnight job, minimum, on my |
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Indy). Thus, we can't be expected to test things at the same rate as, |
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say, the x86 or AMD64 teams. |
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That said, now that I'm aware of the problem, I'll take a look and see |
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about bumping the latest version. |
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-- |
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Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter) .'''. |
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Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` : |
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.' |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter :.' |
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