From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: release bugs [was Re: Processed: enriched.el code execution]
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 23:42:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wp58yiih.fsf@qcore> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFgFV9MPBaJNeBsSUbZBN2vbBE8nZmeKqiLtyzXm8+VvETJ4_g@mail.gmail.com> (Fabrice Popineau's message of "Fri, 8 Sep 2017 10:20:01 +0200")
Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@centralesupelec.fr> writes:
> Maybe I am naive, but I don't see why a bug existing in previous releases
> should be blocking.
We opened a secret door that can be used to cause harm to our users. It is
bad enough that we did that on past releases, but it would be totally
irresponsible to not fix our blunder on the next release.
> If the bug exists in say emacs 25.1, blocking the release of 26.1 will not
> prevent
> people to be at risk because they will continue to use 25.1.
This is why I'm with Paul about backporting the fix. This bug is truly
abhorrent.
[snip]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-08 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <handler.s.C.150463767313430.transcript@debbugs.gnu.org>
2017-09-06 6:40 ` release bugs [was Re: Processed: enriched.el code execution] Glenn Morris
2017-09-06 9:41 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-06 10:00 ` Sven Joachim
2017-09-06 10:13 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-07 4:03 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-07 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-06 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-07 6:30 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-07 13:11 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-07 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-07 21:32 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-08 6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-08 7:11 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-08 8:20 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-09-08 21:42 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2017-09-09 17:12 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-09 18:27 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-09-07 20:47 ` enriched.el code execution Reiner Steib
2017-09-07 21:24 ` Paul Eggert
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