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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Upcoming OpenSSL updates
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 13:39:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tlm4h7e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170523175545.GB18648@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Tue, 23 May 2017 13:55:45 -0400")

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:40:02AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> On May 25 between 1200–1600UTC, OpenSSL will release some bug-fix
>> updates:
>> 
>> https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2017-May/000098.html
>> 
>> Apparently, none of the fixes are for security problems.
>> 
>> However, I still think we should apply the update of openssl@1.0.2 with
>> a graft, if the ABI is unchanged, unless none of the changes are
>> relevant for GNU / Linux systems.
>
> I thought about it some more, and now I'm not so sure we should start
> grafting non-security related bug fixes, in general. For this case,
> let's see what the changes are.

Same here.  I think we should reserve graft for security fixes, or
otherwise serious bug fixes.

I’m surprised that they announce bug-fix-only releases in this way.

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-24 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-23  4:40 Upcoming OpenSSL updates Leo Famulari
2017-05-23 17:55 ` Leo Famulari
2017-05-24 11:39   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-05-25 19:17     ` Leo Famulari
2017-05-25 19:31       ` Marius Bakke
2017-05-24 11:41 ` Fox
2017-05-24 12:01   ` Ludovic Courtès

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