bug#298: bug#298: CVS offline

Nate Riffe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bbc.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Just now Michael H. Frey made 15 LEDs in my apartment flash with this:
> Package: CVS
> 
> CVS is refusing anonymous connections.  My system is RH 8.0 and I have 
> successfully connected in the past, however that is no longer the case. 
>  Have anonymous connections been disabled because the recent CVS 
> security bug has not been repaired yet?

The CVS pserver was shut off a week ago after Debian reported the
security hole.  The package has been updated and the security hole is
no longer a concern.  However, our CVS server has a slow uplink and we
are attempting to release BBC 2.0, so we have left it off to conserve
bandwidth.

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