Re: SRMs: xlockmore?
Hi,
On Fri May 11, 2007 at 14:39:51 +0200, Julien Danjou wrote:
> At 1178878964 time_t, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > That is of "important" severity. Work has been done to mitigate the effects of
> > that bug. Not resolved indeed, but worked around so it's not a critical issue
> > anymore: it will work for most systems and conflicts with environments that
> > may be insecure.
> >
> > There has been a message to that bug 4 months ago by the NMU'er saying why he
> > thinks more information is needed before this could still be considered as
> > RC. Currently only "it might crash with unknown pam modules" is the best
> > available information, and no-one has gotten around to adding any
> > clarification to that in the past 4 months.
> >
> > I don't know the policy on re-including packages, but bug #318123 should not
> > be the thing blocking it unless there's more concrete evidence regarding
> > which situation will expose users.
>
> AFAIK, the policy says: no way.
> On the other hand, xscreensaver is from my POV a (very?) useful[0] package
> so I'd like to consider it. For that, it should first be a good thing to
> have a etch package available and a debdiff from the last version which was in
> etch and the new proposed one.
>
> Martin, what do you think ?
I think we will/should not add/include packages, which weren't there in
4.0r0. Sorry.
Greetings
Martin
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