Re: Upcoming Debian Releases
> > If you want X3.2 _and_ a stable system? Easily. The dependancy problems
> > alone will take weeks to get fixed since they involve many maintainers.
>
> If it's just the dependency I've been told about, it simply means that we
> fix the xlib package to provide elf-x11r6lib, and fix the client packages
> later. Or, we create a stub package that provides elf-x11r6lib and depends
> on xlib6. Are there other problems I haven't been told about?
I wasn't following X3.2 too closely, so I can't say.
> > Here is where we differ. I don't like releasing it as such, but I
> > honestly believe that those people who use "stable" will not be at
> > much risk from this hole.
>
> It would hurt our reputation a lot more than slipping a release date.
> We can't knowingly release a system with a security bug. Ever.
Well, "ever" is a really big word. I've never found things to be quite
this cut and dried. However, I will take this as the policy and adjust
future release accordingly.
Brian
( bcwhite@verisim.com )
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