[gentoo-dev] SearchSecurity.com: Linux patch problems: Your distro may vary

2006-08-07 Thread Wolfram Schlich
Hi, I just stumbled over an article from SearchSecurity.com which was linked to in a heise newsticker posting that tries to analyze how fast distributions react to security vulnerabilities: http://tinyurl.com/lplfb Quick chart: Rank DistroPoints/100

Re: [gentoo-dev] SearchSecurity.com: Linux patch problems: Your distro may vary

2006-08-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Wolfram Schlich wrote: Any comments or thoughts about this? Read the comments here: http://lwn.net/Articles/193107/ In the future, please don't double-post to subscriber-only lists, very few people can reply to both. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] SearchSecurity.com: Linux patch problems: Your distro may vary

2006-08-07 Thread Simon Stelling
Wolfram Schlich wrote: Any comments or thoughts about this? Does the security team currently face serious problems that need to be solved, be it inside or outside the security team? As far as I know large chunks of time get lost when waiting for maintainers and arch teams to do their work. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] SearchSecurity.com: Linux patch problems: Your distro may vary

2006-08-07 Thread Carsten Lohrke
As far as I'm aware the problem isn't the security team, but the reasons are: 1. slow/understaffed arch teams - and I suppose this is the biggest problem, as we need all security-wise supportedĀ¹ architectures stable, before a GLSA can be send out. 2. the amount of unmaintained stuff in the