[gentoo-user] Re: Sparse security announcements

[Jonathan Callen]

On 09/11/2016 11:43 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2016-09-11 11:02, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>
>>> Most are indeed fixed in 6.9.4, but a few (2 or 3 out of
>>> the 10 or so) only in 7.x.  Should a bug be filed?
>>>
>>
>> Sure, if for some reason our imagemagick isn't affected, it only takes a
>> second to mark the bug invalid. Better to play it safe.
>
> Done:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593526
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593528
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593530
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593532
>
> (Hmm.  Are only even numbers assigned as Bug IDs?)
>

At one point, there were two bugzilla servers that synchronized bugs
between each other.  If you got one of the servers, all new bugs would
be even.  If you got the other, all new bugs would be odd.  This was to
avoid having to check with the other server every time a new bug was
created (to ensure that a duplicate number was not assigned).  I don't
know if this is still the case, or just a configuration remnant from
when it was an issue.

-- 
Jonathan Callen