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On Friday, March 26, 2004 4:08, Joshua J. Berry wrote: |
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> AFAIK the security team waits to issue GLSAs until the new version is |
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released |
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> in the stable tree. The unstable version is out (see the bug), so you can |
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> grab that if you are seriously concerned. |
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I know about the GLSA release policy, though I am rather unconvinced by the |
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logic I've seen behind it. |
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However, I was under the impression that there was a concurrent safeguard in |
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place whereby ebuilds with known security flaws would be pulled from |
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portage. This would lead to errors when attempting to "emerge -pUD world" |
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and would at least be a strong indicator of a serious problem with a |
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package. |
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Ben |
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