On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 04:21:53PM +0000, Jack wrote: > This mailing list is for security announcements. All Debian users are > encouraged to subscribe, so that they know about the latest threats and > updates. Incorrect; you're thinking of debian-security-announce, which is moderated and only used for announcements. debian-security is a discussion list. > It is not reasonable to use this list as a forum for discussing a Python > string-comparison routine. Can you please take your discussion somewhere > else? Given the long history of security ramifications of string handling on Unix (and even non-Unix) systems, I don't think you can make that claim without qualification. Though I'll agree that the current discussion may be somewhat off-topic. noah
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