Bug#584653: RC bugs in upcoming stable

2010-12-01 Thread paul . szabo
Arne mentioned http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-2055 and in there, I see: - Bug #592569 is referenced. Surely wrong: that CVE pre-dates my request to make -dSAFER the default, was about -P- and similar. - "experimental 9.00~dfsg-2 vulnerable" whereas bugs #584653 and #58

Bug#584653: RC bugs in upcoming stable

2010-12-01 Thread Arne Wichmann
So, to clarify, does that mean that this 6 month old [1] security problem which was deemed too difficult to fix by the stable security team [2] will be around for the next 2 years because the only available fix does not make it into stable? [3] [1] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511433 [2]