Re: qpopper [was: what's up with security?]
Anthony Towns wrote:
> Security announcements serve a few purposes:
>
> * tell users who never (or irregularly) upgrade to upgrade now
> * share the problem/fix with other distributors (or OEMs)
> * give everyone the impression that we're actually resolving issues
>
> Pretty well all of these apply to frozen & unstable as well as to stable
> (although perhaps they don't apply as well to Mandrake betas). Not everyone
> running unstable has the bandwidth to upgrade everything every day.
Yeah, I think it'd be nice if we could get announcements out for such
fixes. It's lower priority than advisories for fixes in stable, but
there are benefits to doing it, indeed.
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see shy jo
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