Hi!
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:11:23PM +0200, Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote:
> - Unstable uses usually get the fix hours or even days before the GLSA is
> issued.
Why? I think security is important enough to force at least SOME admins to
upgrade packet from current "stable, with security hole" to "unstable, without
security hole"... but for this admins must know about this security hole
as soon as fix for it become available, no matter in x86 or ~x86.
The maintainer provides a new ebuild, but (s)he is not allowed to stable of for any architecture, unless (s)he is a member of that architecture team. So often you have a fixed ebuild within the first day, but testing and stabling takes some time. (But sometime, you also have to wait weeks for a patch. But that is another story).
If this is update is so important to admins, they are welcome to monitor our bugzilla activity to get 0-sec announcements of fixed ebuilds.
