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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-16 2:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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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