Hi, Moritz, Luca and others.
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <j...@inutil.org> wrote:
> As said before reintroducing xpdf into Squeeze means that the new maintainer
> must commit to prepare and test security updates for oldstable and stable.
If I understand it correctly, xpdf is not exactly special in this
regard, as any package in Debian should have its security bugs fixed
for the stable versions.
To be honest, I don't really know what a "security" bug is: the way I
see things, any bug is a bug. Today's segmentation faults are tomorrow
"security" bugs, whatever that may mean (e.g., remote exploits,
"unsafe" creation of temporary files etc).
Anyway, I guess that with Derek planning on doing more frequent
updates (as he told me) and with due time, a better understanding of
the program is achieved and collaboration procedures can be
streamlined.
Right now, it is only a duty of Hamish, but I think that it can be
very well shared with him and other people (I, for one, am willing to
lend a hand, as my first shot at an upgrade has shown).
Unfortunately, I am not a Debian Developer and, thus, I would depend
on someone else to help (Luca, Hamish, you, among others's help are
really appreciated regarding that).
> To demonstrate that will the new maintainer(s) should prepare updates for
> the issues which are still open in Etch and Lenny.
I really want to work with people here as a team and collecting
patches for the issues that are already know as well as acting
proactively with Derek with automated testing and static analysis
checks would not only benefit his commercial customers as well as the
whole world.
Of course, it would be nice to hear from Derek about his plans
regarding xpdf and its potential new interface.
Regards, Rogério Brito.
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