From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Security updates (was Re: texmaker, Qt and Chromium) Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2016 23:33:48 +0200 Message-ID: <87shs5fbr7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877f9kufxx.fsf@elephly.net> <20161008105545.6154ed73@scratchpost.org> <20161009201310.GA30105@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53647) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btLjK-0001D9-5a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 17:33:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btLjF-0007xw-8q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 17:33:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20161009201310.GA30105@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sun, 9 Oct 2016 16:13:10 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel Leo Famulari skribis: > On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 10:55:45AM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: >> One of the reasons I'm using distributions rather than just >> ./configure ; make ; make install is that distributors stay on top of >> security problems and disable and/or patch packages as problems arise. >> I think many others also mainly use distributions because of that. > > I'm going off-topic here, but... Please Help :) > > Right now there are only a few of us paying attention to security bug > disclosures and, in my opinion, that's not enough. I agree. I=E2=80=99m very grateful of all the work you=E2=80=99ve been doi= ng, but I think we should all start doing our share before you get tired of it! Ludo=E2=80=99.