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Bug#272493: libxpm4 security problem



On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 03:14:18PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Daniel Stone's "understanding" about who is "handling 4.3" is wrong -- I'm
> not sure where he got it, as I've discussed this issue with Martin Schulze
> from the Debian Security Team and Fabio Massimo Di Nitto, the XFree86
> package release manager.

Apologies for the misunderstanding.

> [...]
> 
> (In the future, please don't file bugs against unsupported or unreleased
> versions of Debian packages.  I have no idea what libxpm4
> "4.3.0-0pre1v5.49.200406160839" is.  Whoever shipped that package is the
> proper recipient of your bug report.)

Ehm, while it's a decent general rule, the bug here clearly applies to
all versions of XFree86, so there's no reason to tell them to go file
a bug report somewhere else.  Both you and I know that the version
header is irrelevant in this case.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                                <daniels@debian.org>
Debian: the universal operating system                     http://www.debian.org

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