On Mon, 2021-04-05 at 11:17 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 4/4/21 7:10 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> 
> > This is precisely what I meant when I said I don't like the idea of
> > combining security fixes with irrelevant changes.  Good that I've chosen
> > to backport the secfixes instead of pushing the new version to Gentoo
> > stable.
> 
> If I'm a user of Gentoo stable, how would I know from the Python installation 
> itself that those vulnerabilities have been fixed?  Would I have to go find 
> the release/update notes to know?

I suppose the best way is to look at the security bug:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/779841

I'm working on a better tool to check your system for vulnerable
packages but I can only dedicate a little time every few days to work
on it, so it will take some time before it's ready.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny


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