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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: GLSA management
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:51:18
Message-Id: 20120306194843.05af9867@fuchsia.remarqs.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA management by Neil Bothwick
1 On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 19:06:46 +0000
2 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3
4 > If you run testing, you usually have the fixed version before it gets
5 > into a GLSA.
6
7 IME, the same is true of running stable.
8
9 I saw comments somewhere recently about the GLSA-releasing process
10 having a bottleneck somewhere, but there weren't details. I think I
11 was reading bugs.gentoo.org, but I'm not sure.
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13 The stabilization bug[1] for GLSA 201203-12[2] has the fix stabilized on
14 all arches, and a GLSA request made, on 16 January but the GLSA wasn't
15 issued until 6 March. I don't know if that's an anomaly or not.
16
17 There's a lot I don't know in this post, heh. I guess I'm requesting
18 comments.
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20 1 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397695
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22 2 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201203-12.xml

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