On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 11:34:59PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes: > > > The major difference is that security updates frequently shouldn't be > > made public as soon as they're ready; > > By the way, handling security updates this way conflicts more and more > with the Social Contract in its current form. > Didn't we already *have* this flamewar recently? This is the way it is with security, it is that way for some very good reasons. We either accept it, or we don't *get* the advance notice and chance to release security updates. That *would* conflict with our social contract as it would most definitely *not* be looking after the best interests of our users. Stephen
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