Hi,

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 03:17:26AM -0700, Xin LI wrote:
> Speaking as my own: Base system needs more conservative QA process, 
> e.g. we want to minimize the change, we need to analyst the impact 
> (FWIW the security fix would negatively affect heavy traffic sites) 
> and document it (i.e. the security advisory), and we want to make the 
> change a one-time one (for instance, shall we patch libc's resolver as 
> well?), so rushing into a "presumably patched" state would not be a 
> very good solution.

I understand the reasons and that surely needs to be taken into account. 
Does that imply that the FreeBSD project got the information later than 
f.e. M$ or Debian, who are usually not really known for coming up too 
fast with such fixes?

- Olli

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