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Date:      Mon, 15 Nov 2004 04:06:07 +0100
From:      Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New 5.x packages uploaded
Message-ID:  <m3d5yfvmjk.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041115005016.GA4384@xor.obsecurity.org> (Kris Kennaway's message of "Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:50:16 -0800")
References:  <20041115005016.GA4384@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:

> I've uploaded new packages for 5.3-stable; they'll make their way onto
> the ftp mirrors over the next day or so.  Included are the new
> versions of GNOME and KDE, among others.

BTW, are we getting long-standing security issues in ports fixed, for
instance cups-base, open-motif, others? Yeah I know send patches, but my
ressources are limited and committers are also overworked already...

The general question I'd like to raise is how long will we allow ports
with known security flaws linger around before they are marked BROKEN?

-- 
Matthias Andree



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