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On Tuesday 19 June 2007 06:40, Luis Francisco Araujo wrote: |
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> I use to ask for stabilization of the new version of a package |
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> immediately if it is supposed to fix an *important* security problem in |
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> the package, so that way we spread as soon as possible the new fix to |
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> our users. |
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> Not sure if this is documented somewhere as an exception to the 30 days |
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> rule, but i have not had problems so far and the stabilization teams |
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> have been willing to help me in such a cases. |
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We (the security team) ask for stabilization sooner than 30 days according to |
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our policy¹. AFAIR it has only resulted in a few glitches now and then. When |
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they happen they should be assigned to us to fix any regression. |
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¹ http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/vulnerability-policy.xml |
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Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen |
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Gentoo Linux Security Team |
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