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Attention Herbert Xu: FWD: failure notice



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Date: 27 Sep 1999 23:14:48 -0000
From: MAILER-DAEMON@kitenet.net
To: joey@kitenet.net
Subject: failure notice

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at kitenet.net.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>:
Connected to 203.14.152.114 but sender was rejected.
Remote host said: 550 Access denied

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From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: a question about BTS severities
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Herbert Xu wrote:
> Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> wrote:
> >
> > Similarly, I don't think a bug is grave if it makes a package unusable by
> > just one person in an odd sitution. On the other hand, I think all security
> > and data loss bugs are grave, even if only a few people can trigger them.
> 
> I disagree.  If a package causes a remote root exploit to be available, even
> if it's only in a very specific configuration, I would say that it is critical.

No, it's grave. All security bugs are grave, it's part of the definition of
that priority. And later in my message, I said:

  Similarly, I don't think a bug is grave if it makes a package unusable by 
  just one person in an odd sitution. On the other hand, I think all security 
  and data loss bugs are grave, even if only a few people can trigger them. 


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