Re: security patches for PowerPC ?
On Mit, 2002-11-06 at 11:52, K. Reid Wightman wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 10:46, jens francke wrote:
> > hmm as far as i noticed they come delyed a few hours max. most of time
> > on the same date when i386 appear,
> >
> > so shouldnt be a problem ;)
>
> Yep, I've noticed the same thing. PPC patches come out the same day (or
> within a few hours). In really rare cases, the patch may be delayed a
> day or two (like kghostview recently, but it may have just been my
> mirror...).
I think the security advisories normally only go out when fixed binaries
are available for all architectures.
> Kudos to all the ppc port package maintainers.
The kudos go to the security team, who handle this on their own thanks
to the autobuilding infrastructure.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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