From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GLmrU-0000PD-M9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:22:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k88KKFSQ021137; Fri, 8 Sep 2006 20:20:15 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.224]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k88KB7NB024215 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2006 20:11:07 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r21so868311wxc for ; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:11:07 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=tAnRDWLgLPdIhKds5mEUsXpy9HkFPIlXYm1EQtw3rNrlHL1qU3hwpzpMotOSOnOXq5pDsPgkIWB3RyBs+JUsM9s+Ff5Jr94avMd5LjLEbT1KLkqk3xZcIatDFzsypUC4R5vIq7t1OeFO0vQDY2BAFAUsmmimriPUgNGIC4Um/Wc= Received: by 10.70.61.1 with SMTP id j1mr809289wxa; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:11:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.110.1 with HTTP; Fri, 8 Sep 2006 13:11:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7573e9640609081311j509c88a6sae8ad81ad3be4663@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 13:11:07 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] package removed from portage question In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0609081227n56c4402fh7a85d05c62c39fb8@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b0609081002u396e043n3183687029bd543f@mail.gmail.com> <4501A9D0.4000907@badapple.net> <5bdc1c8b0609081227n56c4402fh7a85d05c62c39fb8@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: dd0d38632d3ffb3d X-Archives-Salt: da64a03b-7d5b-4ddf-b62f-0fef5cfddabd X-Archives-Hash: 197f1f825b4d31d07c3f369b6f2e9f94 On 9/8/06, Mark Knecht wrote: > I sort of have a problem with this. Maybe the info is in the change > logs? Yes, you really should read the ChangeLog if you want anwers to such questions. Looks like 4.1.21 was stabilized to solve a security bug [1] [2]. > up with 4.1.20 I think it must have been marked stable. Why did folks > mark it stable and then completely remove it when 4.1.21 came along, > but we continue to have older versions like 4.0.27? Versions older than 4.1 are not affected by the security bug, so there was no need to remove them. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-09.xml [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142429 -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list