Zac Medico posted on Sat, 10 Mar 2018 15:16:29 -0800 as excerpted: > Changes: > * First paragraph rewritten by Robin Johnson <robbat2> > * Fixes spelling of 'following' reported by Michael Everitt > > > Title: Portage rsync tree verification unstable > Author: Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> > Posted: 2018-03-13 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 2.0 > Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/portage > > Portage rsync tree verification is being temporarily turned off by > default, starting with sys-apps/portage-2.3.24. This permits > stabilization of sys-apps/portage-2.3.24 while still working on bugs > relating to tree verification [1]: deadlocks [2] & key fetching [3].
> [...] With robbat2's first paragraph rewrite the effect isn't quite as bad as that of the first draft, but the title still refers to "unstable", which in addition to the intended package-stability meaning, has a number of more severe and thus unnecessarily alarming meanings not intended here. FWIW, being security minded and knowing verification related to security, my own first thought was an app instability due to a potentially exploitable buffer-overflow... in code dealing with verification and thus potentially remotely triggerable during verification itself, definitely more alarming than intended! Thankfully robbat2's rewrite clarifies in the body now, but I still think the title remains overly alarming. Maybe "... remains unstable" or "not yet stable", as in: Title: Portage rsync tree verification not yet stable Or better, refer to the FEATURE flag "rsync-verify" in the title, so it's clear it's not a portage/emerge-executable instability, and clarify that it's the stable keyword, something like this (but might be too long, do those news item short title limits still apply?): Title: Portage rsync-verify feature not yet stable-keyworded Perhaps omit the -keyworded if that's too long: Title: Portage rsync-verify feature not yet stable Feel free to revise further... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
