Bug#508031: Tracking vulnerabilities that have already been patched in other distributions
* Richard Hartmann:
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 15:21, Nico Golde <nion@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> Since we don't just blindly apply fixes from other
>> distributions and there still needs to be someone who can
>> check this additional information I fail to see that this
>> is needed for us.
>
> There is no harm in getting an overview of what other
> distributions do, though.
The cost of maintaining that information separately has to be
considered, too. A lot of this information is available through NVD,
albeit with some delay.
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