Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: hardened glibc downgrade

[Gordon Malm]

On Friday, February 13, 2009 10:03:45 Peter Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Could you please add that kind of information in the package.mask
> comment? Just mention that it will go stable and hardened is not ready
> for that yet should explain a whole lot more then the current comment,
> that to be honest does not tell if it is a stabilization problem, a
> security-problem, a compilation-problem or something totally diffrent.

I changed it but I'll argue that it doesn't matter and doesn't clarify 
anything wasn't already implied by virtue of simply existing in package.mask.  
It is an all-of-the-above problem because there's been zero official tests of 
glibc-2.8 with currently stabled packages in hardened.  Part of the reason 
for stable and unstable is so that users don't have to pay attention to every 
detail and sometimes there are no details to give.

Users who need/want to know every detail of everything that goes on need to 
get more involved.  For everyone one item that is made an issue there are 
probably 87 more going on behinds the scenes that aren't known about and are 
never seen.  Which proves the fact that users don't need everything that goes 
on verbosely announced in order to use their systems and keep up with 
upgrades.

> Anyway, thanks for your hard work.

We need more contributors, Hardened is barely hanging on.  The few devs left 
can only allocate so much of their own time to the project.  But that's 
another thread for another day.  I will not answer any questions regarding 
this right now so don't ask - I simply lack the time for a spagetti thread.  
Just keep watching the ML.

Gordon Malm (gengor)