* Steve Kemp
| On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 01:39:20PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
|
| > > If a member of the sec-team says "Yes, we are actively trying to
| > > find
| > > new members, but finding competent and responsive people who have
| > > the
| > > time and will to help is very difficult", then I'm happy and shut
| > > up.
| >
| > Well, then. :-)
|
| Every time I get a few spare hours I glance over list of packages
| needing work, and tagged security:
|
| http://qa.debian.org/bts-security.html
|
| Of the packages listed there 23 out of the 147 entries contain
| patches, (some of these patches may well be bogus).
|
| So it seems like a simple matter to apply and rebuild them, short
| of performing an NMU it seems that there's little a random developer
| could do.
_And test them_. If you have done that and a bug hasn't been tended
to, an NMU is just fine. A mail to the maintainer is also a good
idea.
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