From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:30:44 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5defcc74-e4d2-57c9-3307-fe5f7ac66fb7@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87wp55t0un.fsf@petton.fr> 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 1505234424 23677 195.159.176.226 (12 Sep 2017 16:40:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 16:40:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 12 18:40:20 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1droEH-0005LY-F0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:40:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37035 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1droEO-0006a2-IV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:40:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44224) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dro5N-0007OB-49 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:30:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dro5J-0002Sc-2D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:30:53 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:46100) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dro5I-0002Rp-Ri for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:30:48 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id F17AE160A30 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:30:45 -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 1akkWtzCcHiY for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:30:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 523E9160A49 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:30:45 -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 oa9tS7lXnoGB for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:30:45 -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 39EFA160973 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:30:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218129 Archived-At: On 09/12/2017 09:05 AM, Philippe Vaucher wrote: > Does a vulnerability that has been there since that long really > deserve such a rushed release? > > I mean, you could have gone through the classic release procedure with > tags/branches etc and maybe delay the release for 2-3 days. Would it > really have changed something in that case? > > I don't understand why this particular security issue was treated that > dramatically, but maybe I'm missing something. The security issue was quite bad. Adding tags and branches is a matter of minutes, not days. It hasn't been done yet (which is not a good thing), but it should get done reasonably soon.