Re: to reiterate, why are there no security updates on the front page? (Or, 17 security holes the security team hasn't told you about)

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Subject: Re: to reiterate, why are there no security updates on the front page? (Or, 17 security holes the security team hasn't told you about)
From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 02:06:56 -0800
Message-id: <[🔎] 20000529020656.U29071@plato.local.lan>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20000529194129.F32110@azure.humbug.org.au>; from aj@azure.humbug.org.au on Mon, May 29, 2000 at 07:41:29PM +1000
References: <[🔎] 20000529011107.Q29071@plato.local.lan> <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.21.0005290413170.998-100000@yakko.doogie.org> <[🔎] 20000529013145.S29071@plato.local.lan> <[🔎] 20000529194129.F32110@azure.humbug.org.au>

On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 07:41:29PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 01:31:45AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > 4.6 is far less stable then 4.7x (on powerpc
> > anyway) which is a release critical bug.  
> 
> Ummm, no. Something being somewhat unstable does not a release critical
> make. Unusable for a majority of users, yes. Packaging errors like not

i think the majority of powerpc users who use netscape 4.6 consider it
unsuable (at least everyone i have talked to) and they wonder why
debian is the only powerpc distribution ignoring the 4.70 binaries
available. 

[snip]

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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