Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla sources stabilization policy change
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 20:45:58
Message-Id: 20130724214540.4cfc0472@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla sources stabilization policy change by Rich Freeman
1 On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:40:38 -0400
2 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
3 > Also, not all fixes are equal. The ones that are the biggest concern
4 > are security fixes.
5
6 Why? Which is worse: a local denial of service attack when every user
7 on your box has sudo access anyway, or a random data corruption bug
8 that can't be triggered manually and is thus not a security issue?
9
10 --
11 Ciaran McCreesh

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