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From: Martin Jackson <mjolnir@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:21:12
Message-Id: 47803A61.7000600@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January by Ciaran McCreesh
1 > And what is the impact of that holdup? Have you explained why you
2 > consider that to be a priority to the arch teams in question?
3 >
4
5 We had a sec bug on net-snmp that was held up due to
6 dev-python/setuptools not being ~mips. The net-snmp folks added a
7 python module to their distribution, and I added support to the ebuild
8 for it, so now the latest stable net-snmp for mips has a DoS against it.
9
10 See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191550 - it took > 2 months
11 for mips to keyword it.
12
13 Security bugs are normally supposed to have enhanced priority for
14 keywording, etc.
15
16 Thanks,
17 Marty
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>