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Re: Bug#496386: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages



Charles Plessy wrote:

> Le Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 07:16:00AM +0200, Christian Perrier a écrit :
>> 
>> - timing wrt the release
>> - timing wrt the "half of the developers are VAC" status we generally
>>   have in August
>> - the obvious lack of preparation
> 
> In addition, security issues should better be reported upstream first so
> that all the distributions have a chance of providing corrected versions
> when the details are made public…

doesn't apply for maintainer scripts, but I agree they should *also* be
reported to upstream.

> 
> Have a nice day,
> 

Cheers,
Raphael


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