[Mageia-dev] Status report for Mageia 1 updates, and call for?help from you packagers

Fri Aug 26 12:33:34 CEST 2011

On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
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+> Op vrijdag 26 augustus 2011 00:57:26 schreef nicolas vigier:
+> > On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+> > > Sure, i'm packaging as fast as my RL (and mga2 dev TODO list) allows me.
+> > > I guess you should ask Anssi if i'm ready or not. I must say that i'm
+> > > not sure if security bugs are actually my thing though. I never hacked
+> > > servers, so i don't really know much about it. But in any case, i'm
+> > > packaging, and i suppose
+> > 
+> > Doing security updates has nothing to do with hacking servers, it's
+> > looking for the right patch to fix the issue, and updating the package
+> > with the patch applied.
+> 
+> but don't you have to test it that it actually works?
+
+And you don't know how to run an exploit ?
+
+It's interesting that when there is some work to be done, you never know
+how to do anything, but it's never a problem to talk about anything like
+an expert, give your opinion about everything, say what should be done,
+how it should be done, etc ...
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