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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Gulshan Singh <gsingh2011@gmail.com>
Cc: matt@rfc20.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Should package.el support notifying on package security updates?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 22:52:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1oNmgj-0002xG-4J@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZYrehUzG2H55k4oiVKAJ6GtRQLNjXF_rc9yvjBVS=-8_hLA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Gulshan Singh on Sat, 13 Aug 2022 20:29:54 -0700)

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  > There's no reason
  > ELPA packages can't have similar security bugs (I just don't have an
  > example of this at the moment), and I figured it might be a good idea to
  > have some support for making it easier for users to quickly get security
  > updates for packages, regardless of what repository they're using.

It makes sense for us to improve matters for GNU ELPA.
It's a desirable thing to do, and it's part of our work.

WHat remains is the practical question: what actions, that would
improve the situation, are feasible for us to do.  As I'm not an
expert on that, I will leave it to the others.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-16  2:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87r12qm4q5.fsf@gmail.com>
2022-08-08  1:46 ` Fwd: Should package.el support notifying on package security updates? Gulshan Singh
2022-08-12  0:04   ` Matt Armstrong
2022-08-12  0:29     ` Tim Cross
2022-08-12 13:18       ` Stefan Kangas
2022-08-13  0:44         ` Tim Cross
2022-08-12 21:40       ` Stefan Monnier
2022-08-13  0:58         ` Tim Cross
2022-08-13  4:58           ` tomas
2022-08-13 14:00             ` Stefan Monnier
2022-08-14  3:23     ` Richard Stallman
2022-08-14  3:29       ` Gulshan Singh
2022-08-16  2:52         ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-08-25  3:32         ` Richard Stallman
2022-08-25  4:33           ` Tim Cross

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