From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#28597: 26.0.60; [Security] Configure should use --without-pop by default Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:22:04 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <87fubaq0dl.fsf@moondust.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506446596 30902 195.159.176.226 (26 Sep 2017 17:23:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:23:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 Cc: "N. Jackson" , 28597@debbugs.gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 26 19:23:07 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dwtZY-0007Fo-TQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 19:23:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50427 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwtZf-0005Qc-TZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:23:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55020) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwtZa-0005QW-EU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:23:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwtZW-0001y4-Ea for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:23:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:53055) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwtZW-0001xr-C7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:23:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dwtZW-00022A-3l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:23:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87fubaq0dl.fsf@moondust.localdomain> Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:23:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 28597 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 28597-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B28597.15064465357758 (code B ref 28597); Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:23:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 28597) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Sep 2017 17:22:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33502 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dwtYl-000214-An for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:22:15 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:39558) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dwtYi-00020p-SI for 28597@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:22:13 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B243F160AEB; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:22:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id SVFvAg7cE4B1; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:22:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1831160E03; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:22:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id AVcSfY4nN41S; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D8544160AEB; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:137470 Archived-At: As Glenn noted, the 'configure' message N. mentions came from an uneasy compromise between worry about the default lack-of-security in Emacs, and worry about backward compatibility (see Bug#26102). Although I favor making --without-pop the default, at this point it's really an issue for the two maintainers to decide.