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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] package removed from portage question
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:22:05
Message-Id: 7573e9640609081311j509c88a6sae8ad81ad3be4663@mail.gmail.com
1 On 9/8/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > I sort of have a problem with this. Maybe the info is in the change
3 > logs?
4
5 Yes, you really should read the ChangeLog if you want anwers to such
6 questions. Looks like 4.1.21 was stabilized to solve a security bug
7 [1] [2].
8
9 > up with 4.1.20 I think it must have been marked stable. Why did folks
10 > mark it stable and then completely remove it when 4.1.21 came along,
11 > but we continue to have older versions like 4.0.27?
12
13 Versions older than 4.1 are not affected by the security bug, so there
14 was no need to remove them.
15
16 [1] http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-09.xml
17 [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142429
18
19 -Richard
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