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in spamming me twice ;)

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:25:12PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:02:22PM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > ferringb took the time to write a parser and setup a cronjob 
> > (every 4 hours at the half hour) to parse over our GLSA's and see what 
> > pkgs remain in the tree and have nothing but newer versions stable. I
> [snip]
> 
> Just because old versions exist, doesn't strictly mean that they are
> safe to remove - some of them may be in the tree because other packages
> block the newer versions.

Given, but vulnerable pkgs should be on the way out of the tree- this 
is strictly matching of what's vulnerable.

Not dug into the revdeps, but wouldn't be surprised if at least 25% of 
what's being matched by the vulnerability queries is just cruft that 
never got removed.

~harring

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