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From: Dan Noe <dpn@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] GLSAs: Put the name of the affected packg in front of the title?!
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 23:10:46
Message-Id: 20040525230950.GA1974@threepwood.isomerica.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-security] GLSAs: Put the name of the affected packg in front of the title?! by Christian Hoenig
1 On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 11:57:14PM +0200, Christian Hoenig wrote:
2 > This is kind of an RFC...
3 > As I currently (and most likely in the future, too) read gentoo-announce and
4 > the GLSA titles have become very long lately, I'd suggest to put the affected
5 > package name in front of the GLSA-title. With the current scheme, the names
6 > of the affected packages are most of the time outside of my mail clients
7 > header view so that I have to open each mail and look which pkg is the
8 > affected one.
9 >
10 > Give me your oppinions on this :-)
11
12 Yes yes! This would be a wonderful idea. I use Mutt as my mailer and
13 currently the affected package almost always gets cut off on the end of
14 the title.
15
16 This would be a great and easy change to make. As far as I can tell, there
17 are few drawbacks to doing it this way.
18
19 Dan
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